Re: Extracting formatted text block

Thanks to the monks you responded. I have the following --

_TedPride();
# the above seems to go into an infinite loop. I have to 
# CTRL-C to exit. I also don't understand the idioms used

_jdporter();
# seems neat, but...
# the above exits immediately without printing anything

_ikegami();
# the only code that thus far prints correctly. 
# I have to run it against several variations to 
# confirm its robustness, Btw, I do not understand
# $-[1] and $+[1] bit. At first glance I thought it
# was a typo!

_Zaxo();
# as mentioned by ikegami, exits with 
# 'x' outside of string in unpack at ... line ...

_punkish();
# works, but skips a value or two

# Disclaimer:
# I tried to be very careful, but I may have copied the code 
# given above incorrectly
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Re^2: Extracting formatted text block by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 17, 2005 at 05:56 UTC
`_jdporter(); # seems neat, but... # the above exits immediately without printing anything` [download] That's because it's reading from `<DATA>`, but there's no __DATA__ section. I assumed you would append an appropriate __DATA__ section, as you showed in the original post.	[reply] [d/l] [select]