Almost right. My boss knows I'm floundering, but we don't have any other options right now. This needs to be done and we haven't been able to find any experienced Perl Programmers, so she asked me to give it a shot. I wouldn't be as far as I am now without the help of the Perl Monks! And my books. On my desk right now I have Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules, Effective Perl Programming, Advanced Perl Programming, The Complete Perl Reference, Higher-Order Perl, mastering Regular Expressions, Perl for Dummies, Learning Perl, Perl Cookbook and Programming Perl. I have others, but I've been using the one's I just listed today.

I appreciate your suggestions, and am going to get Perl for System Administration ASAP. I did UNIX Shell Scripting for 35 years, and we thought Perl was close enough that I could blunder through. Boy were we wrong. But I am enjoying the experience, and want to learn, and WILL learn. In the meantime, I need to thank everyone who has been helping me squeak through!

Edited by planetscape - removed br tags, replaced with <p></p> tags

In reply to Re^4: Regular Expression Pattern Search Problem by xdbd063
in thread Regular Expression Pattern Search Problem by xdbd063

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