vitoco:

Yes, it's a perl coding hackers topic. But what Your Mother was trying to convey is that you might be focused too tightly on the details. Sure, we can help you get an answer to your question....but you might be asking the wrong question.

Example: Suppose you're walking through the woods trying to get to Grandmother's house. The path branches several times here and there, and you're worried about getting lost. So you're walking along the path, and you find a ravine in your path, and the rope bridge across it is broken. So now you're trying to cross the ravine. You successfully make rope by weaving together tree bark, and you're trying to build a new rope bridge. But you're having trouble trying to lasso a stump on the other side of the ravine. So you use your magic whistle to call a helpful mystical owl from the sky and ask it "How can I lasso the stump over there?".

The owl will happily try to help you construct your rope bridge. But if you happened to phrase your question as "Hi, I'm trying to get to Grandmother's house, but this ravine is in my way. I'm trying to figure out how to cross it. Now I've made this rope, and I think all I need to do is lasso that stump so I can cross this ravine. Can you help?" Then the owl could offer, "Well, I can help you cross the ravine. But if you're trying to get to Grandmother's house, it would be much simpler to go back two intersections and take a left, take your next right at the large rock, and it's about 100 yards further."

In other words, by focusing in on the smaller problems (as we programmers are often wont to do), you may have created an artificial problem for yourself to solve, when simpler and more direct solutions are available. If don't give us enough information, we'll try to help you cross the ravine, but if you give us some context of what you're trying to accomplish, we might be able to direct you to the already created Grandmother::House module or some such.

...roboticus

in a somewhat whimsical mood.

In reply to Re^5: Convert a string into a hash by roboticus
in thread Convert a string into a hash by vitoco

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