in reply to Need crash course in PERL!

You are all assuming cbrackin wants someone else to write the script for him/her. That's not the plain meaning of the post, but perhaps your read-between-the-lines skills are better than mine.

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Re^2: Need crash course in PERL!
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2008 at 06:13 UTC

    From the OP:

    Part of the test is to see how I use resources to obtain the data/knowledge needed to simply get the job done - not that I even have to do it myself! So that's where you guys come in!

    The emphasis is mine; those are the lines I read between. The nearest and simplest antecedent to "it" in "do it myself" is "the job".

      cbrackin I’m a bit confused with your interpretation of your task, you say that you are asked to :-

      “create a Perl script” to do a certain task, you also say

      "that the test is to see how I use resources to obtain the data/knowledge needed to simply get the job done"

      Yet in the task spec it specifically says “Write a Perl script” any interpretation of that would be that

      you have to write it and "not that I even have to do it myself"!

Re^2: Need crash course in PERL!
by Lawliet (Curate) on Aug 27, 2008 at 03:02 UTC

    I think they all guessed his intentions by his spelling of 'Perl' and the way he posted his node. That is, finding a site that specializes in Perl, registering, copy/paste his request, and wait. He did not bother to read the instructions to the monastery.

    Of course, you may be right. He may be simply asking for a crash course in Perl.

    The post has a bad 'aura', if you will.

    I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

    chomp; # nom nom nom

      He may be simply asking for a crash course in Perl.

      perlintro?

Re^2: Need crash course in PERL!
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2008 at 06:24 UTC
    That's not the plain meaning of the post, but perhaps your read-between-the-lines skills are better than mine.
    First step to reading between the lines is reading the lines :) Try it :)