Zachary said:
On the miniscule hope that you might have actually wanted *help*, as
you stated, instead of someone to write your program for you. It is
disheartening to see that I was wrong.
I work at UPS and I'm attemting to change
positions. The new position requires that I learn a ton of zip codes
so that I'll know where to send the packages in the buiding so I
figured I would kill 2 birds with one stone ( do some programming and
learn the zips ). I'm working on an application that I can use to test
myself.
I'm confused as to the relevance of any of this. None of it transforms
this newsgroup from one that assists people in writing and debugging
their programs to one that writes code for you.
I'm also currently working through the "Learning Perl" and
"Programming Perl" books.
Excellent. Good for you. Seriously.
uh-huh.... and so when you have a hobby, you don't actually *try to
accomplish* anything relating to that hobby? You just tell people you
want something done until they do it for you? If carpentry were your
hobby, would you go around asking people to build you a birdhouse? Or
would you try to build a birdhouse and then ask for assistance in the
proper usage of a hammer?
I'm not a student trying to cheat
Well, good, because bluntly asking people to do your work for you would
make you *really* bad at cheating.
I just don't know how to accomplish the task above.
Right. Which is why I very specifically asked you to tell us what your
best guess was, to show us that you'd actually *attempted* to solve
your problem on your own, or to at the very least tell us what specific
parts were confusing you.
So far
I'm just randomly picking a filehandle, plucking a line off the top,
and comparing with my answer
What is "your answer"? You never mentioned anything about an "answer"
in your original post.
until I reach EOF on each filehandle. The
problem with that is nothing varies.
If you actually are "randomly" picking a filehandle, as you said, than
absolutely something varies. One of your last two statements is in
error. Without any code (have you read the Posting Guidelines yet,
also as I suggested?) it's impossible to know which one it is.
Sorry if posted to the wrong group
That depends on what you want. If you want someone to write code for
you, yes you posted to the wrong group (try jobs.perl.org - you may
have better luck there). If you want assistance writing/debugging your
own code, you're in the right place.
but you should just pass it on by if you don't know the answer.
This actually made me laugh. Thank you. What part of my post in any
way implied that *I* didn't know the answer? Or is this some bizarre
reverse psychology intended to get me to show my superiority by posting
the answer for you?
I'm sure someone will help eventually
Yes. "Someone" already has. I did. I think what you mean is "I'm
sure someone will write the program for me eventually." And frankly, I
think that's a distinct possibility. More's the pity.
or I might even figure it out on my own.
And if that happens, I will be among the first to congratulate you.
If you want to be a teacher, make that your profession.
As a matter of fact, it is. Thanks for noticing.
If you just want to be an *sshole then keep up the good work.
Oh, I don't need your encouragement for that. It comes pretty
naturally.
Your main problem with my response is in the arrogant belief that I
responded for your benefit and yours alone. I did not. I posted my
response to remind all future posters reading the archives of this
group that one should always make an attempt to help themselves before
asking thousands of people around the world to do it for them.
Fare thee well,
Paul Lalli