I'll be damned. This reminds me of a story.

In about 2002 when I'd been hacking Perl quite a bit for 3 years I started to feel like I wanted to know how far I'd come. I was self-taught and pretty uneasy about my skills even though I'd accomplished some large projects, even an international one, at a large company. I looked around online till I found some Perl self-tests. There were three tests: beginner, moderate, expert. Feeling sheepish, I thought I'd better do the beginner first to get a good score and then move on. I expected to ace it.

I got like a 55% or something. I was so mad I blazed through the expert exam. Got 100% to my amazement. Being self-taught on real projects I knew references and objects and that sort of jazz pretty well, but I couldn't even answer some of the basics because they'd never come up.

In 9 years of Perl hacking, I did not know till now that there was a readline function in Perl or that there was anything else underlying the diamond operator.

In reply to Re^2: Treating file lines in a text file as a string by Your Mother
in thread Treating file lines in a text file as a string by adaykin31

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