* Scrap this code and start over, writing a version that complies with strictures. In other words, use lexical variables, not globals, use strict, use warnings.

Congratulations! You just convinced someone that Perl is too much trouble to learn. A person took the trouble to register on this site and post an extremely coherent question, something that is a rarity in this place. Yet, you blatantly ignored the question being asked and imposed your own morals upon the questioner.

For reference, the question was NOT one of the following:

The question actually was:

How can I solve this immediate problem so that I can get my boss off my back and go to lunch already!

Yet, you didn't help this person. You didn't suck them into the world of Perl with a free hit off the crack pipe. If we answer the question asked in a timely and effective manner, the OP will think "Gee, those Perlmonks guys really helped me out of a jam! Maybe I should hang out there more often." At that point, you can gently introduce him/her to strictures, CPAN, and the like. But, that time is not now.

You, instead, gave them the impression that they had to build their own crackpipe from scratch, then go to Columbia to grow their own coca plants and refine it and ... how is that effective advocacy again?

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

In reply to Re^2: Problem Searching an array for a string... Please Help! by dragonchild
in thread Problem Searching an array for a string... Please Help! by XehNib

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