• aspiring to master at least some of the ways of using perl
• webmaster (straight ascii 4.01 html + css) concerned with the bandwidth-challenged like self...
• old f....
  ...who was largely out of touch with computers, programing, et al from late 80s to '00
  ...who maintains a working PDP 11-23 and an O1 in basement
  ...who gripes a lot about documentation that's written with essential cross-references every line or so and that which assumes familiarity with topics of which I no knowledge yet...
  ...and about helpfiles||FAQs||documents that tell me to "Consult your System Administrator."
  I am my own (insufficiently knowledgeable) sysadmin: W2K and (SuSE) Linux.

By (highly ++) contrast, How to RTFM

trying to remember CB link shorthand

    *  By Title: [nodetitle]
    * By Node ID: [id://nodeid]
    * A Monk's Scratch Pad: [pad://monk name]
    * Simple Search results: [search terms]

Observation to perl by: "Most mathematical equations are not written, then proven. You usually have a pattern, you map an equation to it, then you try and prove it for values beyond your pattern."

              dragonchild in Re: Number of listings per page

recent PM super_goodies:

• Things you think you'll never use. re regex, delayed compilation. cf 411878
• $vars in regexen
• Parsing Bibliog ++ BrowserUK
• PM CSS discussion
• How can I use backrefs in a lookbehind?
• Clipboard transform keys
• Count mutliple pattern matches
• The philosophy behind element reference syntax
• A new chatterbox flavour from Aristotle
• Resources to get help in Perl by szabgab
• Re: Returning two hashes from a sub?
• xls2tab - Simple MS Excel to TSV converter

...and Ovid's cgi tutorial (including charentitites Appx)