in reply to Configurable Matches

(yes I know there are many perfectly good ones out there but I am trying to learn some perl by doing this).
You know, you can learn perl by reading the source of one of those perfectly good log parsers written in perl.

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Re^2: Configurable Matches
by jdhawke (Acolyte) on Jun 03, 2004 at 04:48 UTC
    True, but I am a person who learns much better by doing than reading. When I am looking at a new language and trying to figure out someone else's code I generally am not able to learn as much as when I start from "Hello World" and build up to a similar piece of software on my own.
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