in reply to Re: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story
in thread Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story

So, all you did was to reinvent grep? Because that's what a perl -ne 'print if //' is.

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Re: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story
by crenz (Priest) on Feb 13, 2005 at 15:09 UTC
    Since this seems to be a Windows shop, they might not have grep. Plus, he might have preferred to use Perl for some reason. No need to be so judgmental.