Hey all! I've been programming for a few years now, I did some C++, Java, Php, Javascript, Xml, html, blablabla, ... and 3 years ago, a coworker told me about a scripting language, that is multi-platform, that can do CGI programming... and I discovered Perl. The first thing I did was to scream when I saw all the weird caracters and I really screamed (like a girl) when I saw the regular expressions (ie. =~ m//) .. what the 'beep' was that? Ah .. but I didn't give up! The first thing I did was to buy the book 'learning perl' and I wrote a script on my NT machine and ftp it on a Unix server and ... it runned like a charm!..not... forgot the CHMOD ;) anyway, I'm now working full time with perl, and I CAN REALY do a program that would take 100s of lines in C or VB ... in a few lines of perl!... now I'm a fanatic of regexs! hang in there newbies ! mouhahahaha! jean-daniel

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