Hi, once again

I love your work

I spent a fair part of the day on this and got it to work just as I wanted. Your contribution was great. The biggest problem I had was extracting the elements from the final hash to output them to the final desired file.

I think I proved that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will eventually end up typing the Bible.

The thing that amazes me is that I could never come up with the solution you did, even reading all the texts and going to courses. Every time I have read about hashes or attended a course, we end up using Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone, etc as examples and then extracting their surname or a Bedrock phone number.

One last question. The construct //= I can see what it does, but I cannot find a reference? Presumably the // is a match against null? Is that correct. I asked a couple of people at work who count themselves as good Perl programmers and even they said that they had seen nothing like it.

Many thanks for your help. You should see the dog's breakfast that it replaced

Mike

In reply to Re^4: Joining separate data files to make one. by msexton
in thread Joining separate data files to make one. by msexton

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