Just wanted to share a recent experience with Monastery.

IMHO, Rule Number One(tm) when joining a community such as the Monastery, is to RTFM. Rather, it's not just a rule but should be the supreme mantra.

It's simple, before you post spend some due diligence researching your question. For example, by researching I prevented embarassing myself to merlyn.

In this thread: Removing Control Characters, meryln makes this point: Re: Removing Control Characters. Well, I remember reading this node: Re: Re: extra options in tr/// and thinking, "oh the tr/// command is going to be removed from Perl."

I thought it was interesting that merlyn was promoting the use of tr/// even though it was going to be removed from Perl in future versions. I thought that I would add some value by pointing this out to merlyn

Heh... then I thought to myself, right... merlyn is way more plugged into the Perl scene than I am, maybe I should review that post a little closer.

Here's where the due diligence of spending time in Super Search paid off. Instead of running my mouth off and looking like a fool, Super Search turned up the node from chipmunk and this time I *read* the post. Upon further review I realized that tr/// was not going away, just the C and U options.... Duh!

So what is the moral of the story? All New monks, Repeat after me: Super Search before you post!

Go Ahead! Try it! It's massively addicting!! :)

P.S.: <rant>Stop asking questions about how to remove the ^M from DOS-mudged files. Take five seconds, go to Super Search and type ^M into the "Words in text box", hit search and bask in the enlightenment that follows...</rant>

In reply to Super Searching before you post by fongsaiyuk

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