Re: Invalid Operating System

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On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:44:29 +0100, "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxx.xx> wrote:

> * Michael Leuchtenburg <michael@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-16 19:05]:
> > What is this, loves-perl? Release your anger, your hate!
> > :
> > I could go on, getting in to the sorts of hate that Perl
> > enables - s;foo;bar; anyone?
> 
> That's annoying, but do you find the following pretty?
> 
>     s/^file:\/\/\/?//
> 
> I guess the set of delimiters could have excluded things like
> semicolons, though; granted.

No. Very handy.

my $sth = $dbh->prepare (qq;
    select foo, bar
    from   baz
    where  duh = ?;
    );

Now you can cut-n-paste the statement and run in SQL :)
And it reads nice too

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& 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.1, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org
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• A. Pagaltzis 01:44 on 17 Dec 2006
  • Peter da Silva 02:14 on 17 Dec 2006
    • A. Pagaltzis 04:20 on 17 Dec 2006
      • too deep to show
    • demerphq 18:05 on 17 Dec 2006
  • H.Merijn Brand 10:26 on 17 Dec 2006
    • Martin Ebourne 11:13 on 17 Dec 2006
    • Earle Martin 12:42 on 17 Dec 2006
    • Peter da Silva 14:35 on 17 Dec 2006
  • David Landgren 17:00 on 17 Dec 2006
  • David Cantrell 01:14 on 20 Dec 2006

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