Re: references to OTHER objects

From: A. Sinan Unur (1usa_at_llenroc.ude.invalid)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: 8 Nov 2004 17:54:14 GMT

"daniel kaplan" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
news:1099935698.687240@nntp.acecape.com:

> "Ala Qumsieh" <notvalid@email.com> wrote in message
> news:WYNjd.6314$zx1.3866@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>> daniel kaplan wrote:
>
>> The next time you have a question, go check out
>> the relevant docs one more time *before* posting.
>
> please don't think i don't try, but it's the searchign where i lose.

And in quite a few other places.

>
>> I understand that perldoc can be sometimes lacking (I'm sure patches
>> are welcome if you ever want to rectify the problem instead of
>> constantly complaining),
>
> i think i am the last one anyone would want to do this, but i did make
> a suggestion, in a sort of round about way...i found perldoc hard to
> use, and can easily search FAQs 1-9 at faq.perl.org because questions
> show up at once and with a text search, bang, you find what you're
> looking for...is it possible to get something like that up for the
> perltoc ? am sure it would elimnate more than half the questions from
> lots of people..

OK ... How hard is it to go:

Start -> Search -> For Files or Folders

Search for files or folders named: *.html

Containing text: How can I pass/return

Look in: C:\Perl

Then click the "Search Now" button?

The search will return perltoc.html, perlfaq.html (which you can ignore
because they are not specific enough) and perlfaq7 (which is where you
should look).

It is expected that before you start programming you know the facilities
made available to you by the OS you yourself have chosen.

> but it boils down to being able to find the keywords

No it doesn't.

Sinan.