Re: [LUG] programming question

["MATTHEW BROWNING" <M.Browning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Perl is mostly the best tool for the job :)
>
> > Hmm, I'm getting quite partial to TCL, mainly because if I really get
> > stuck trying to construct an expression, I can play around in interactive
> > mode (tclsh) until it works.
>
> Resist, resist!
>
> > Go on, tell me that Perl can work like this too, but nobody told me :-)
>
> Perl can do anything :)


I do that in Perl all the time; invoke Perl at the command line and 
press ctrl-d when you are done with your expression to see how it 
evaluates.

Alternatively, type `perl' followed by the expression if it is a 
one-liner.

If you find this way of working useful, Python makes quite a big deal 
out of its interactive mode, which alerts you of invalid statements 
as you go along. (It also has loads of fabby modules to play with).

MB

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