jeroenes as a side thread, if I had said that I was trying to implement a CGI parsing routine, someone would undoubtedly point me to use CGI;. I admit that I didn't search for permutations, because I didn't think of it (however, I did do some searching on similar topics as my little project). I did recall some discussion from the CB on similar subjects and, for lack of a useful search term, I figured this SoPW would get me a good answer (with either a link or code such as tye provided). So, instead of poorly reinventing the wheel, I asked my fellow wheelmakers for an appropriate wheel.

So while I can fully see your point of view (as I CBed), I think that it would be remiss of me to not request an answer, considering the purpose of SoPW and PerlMonks itself. Or has the purpose of PerlMonks been perverted from this style of question? Not to be snide, but can you point me to that change in the Need Help?? or Perl Monks FAQ?

My goal isn't to solve all of this toy project myself, but to simply finish it. If that involves requests for code (noting that this is my first such request, and happens to be the last thing I need to finish the current instantiation), then I think such questions are well within the nature of PerlMonks and SoPW.

Note: This is not an attack on your reply, I found your link to be useful. It is simply a response to the homework statement and my own interpretation of what SoPW is supposed to be for. I just wanted to address an issue that I think I tried to avoid initially.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

In reply to Re: Re: nCr arrays of size r by PsychoSpunk
in thread nCr arrays of size r by PsychoSpunk

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