Re: multiple lines / success or failure?!

From: Jim Cochrane (jtc_at_shell.dimensional.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: 31 Mar 2004 14:38:33 -0700

In article <slrnc6m3p2.1fg.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>, Tad McClellan wrote:
> Geoff Cox <geoffacox@dontspamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 31 Mar 2004 17:50:30 +0100, Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com> wrote:
>>>Geoff Cox <geoffacox@dontspamblueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>>>>
>>>> I am getting a "can't find EOHTML string terminator anywhere before
>>>> EOF" message using above. Is there a typo?
>>>
>>>Have you eleminiated the most likely cause that is explained when you
>>>look that message up in the reference manual (perldiag)?
>>
>> Making me work for the answer!!
>
>
> Making you do your own work.
>
> We are not a read-the-docs-to-me service.
>
> We hope that posters would be respectful enough of other's time
> to try the obvious things themselves before involving thousands
> of other people around the world.
>
> Knowing about perldiag.pod can help your troubleshooting
> forevermore, well beyond the problem that happened to
> bring you here today.
>
>
>> Problem solved -
>
>
> It is amazing how often reading the docs applicable to your
> problem will do that for you!
>
> Work smart. Try to find help in the best resource available first,
> look elsewhere only after that does not help.
>
> The best resource available for Perl is the standard documentation
> that comes with perl.

Also, when all other resources have been exhausted, a well-worded google
search can often lead to a solution. (This applies to many technologies,
of course, not just perl.) 

-- 
Jim Cochrane; jtc@dimensional.com
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