X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c40b5c666c8072bd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-04 09:08:53 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Hey, LastFuture Message-ID: <3af2d090.2026487@news.ntlworld.com> References: <3AE999C7.7E2F31D2@homail.com> <3AEEC38E.9B39FE6D@twcny.rr.com> <3AEF6F21.897D4837@hotmail.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 35 Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 16:04:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.140.66 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 988992230 213.104.140.66 (Fri, 04 May 2001 17:03:50 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:03:50 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: newsfeed.google.com alt.ascii-art:5607 On Fri, 04 May 2001 11:48:34 +0200, lastfuture enlightened us with: > On Wed, 02 May 2001 02:17:34 GMT, Kyle wrote: > > >"Michael D. Phillips" wrote: > >> I think that Bateau is correct in saying that Perl is most likely the > >> best language. Perl is something that I just picked up about 3 or 4 > >> month ago. Any language is easy to learn the basic if you have a good > >> programming foundation. > > i dont know if it's possible to hand-edit ascii arrays like in jave.. > if it is, perl is our thing :) In Perl, There's more than one way to do it *. Depends how you're doing it, but if you were trying to replace the 5th character in a string with a * for example, you could do: $string =~ s/^(.{4})./$1*/; I'm fairly sure there are better (faster) ways to do it but that'd work. Don't expect to understand that unless you've ever seen Regular Expressions - they're not unique to Perl, but I'd never seen them before I came across Perl. As far as an open source ng project, I'd help for Java/Perl. As I said, Perl's good for CGI (i.e. a webpage based game) but would require anyone else to download Perl to run it on their comp. * Perl's motto. Sorry, thought I'd throw it in. -- o |\ _[] L_ === Stuart Moore []\, stm