You have my sympathy for your bad feelings, but maybe all is not lost. I learned Perl before I learned C# and .Net, and maybe right now it is hard to believe but C# can be almost as much fun as Perl.

I recommend that you explore the Regex support in .Net (System.Text.RegularExpressions). You should know that it is a publicly stated goal for the .Net framework to be compatible with Perl 5 - and on top of that it adds features like named captures.

One of the things I miss most about Perl is the one-liners, but then I think I can leave this as idiomatic of Perl and be content.

I don't think your Perls of wisdom will be devoured, remind yourself that you will always know that there's another way to do things, and whenever you want you can

perl -e "while(<>){s/abc/def/ig; print}"

...while all those around you are doing

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace YourCompanyName {
   class myClass {
      public static void Main() {
         StreamReader sr = new StreamReader();
         ...and on
            and on
            and on...
      }
   }
}

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In reply to Re: Murder of a Perl coder (announced) by EdwardG
in thread Murder of a Perl coder (announced) by Discipulus

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