Posted by Colin Fine on 09/29/33 11:37

hugenin wrote:
> you see David...
> had to be sarcastic to get an answer!
>
No, you had to ask a second time. You didn't need to be sarcastic.

> Was too hard to say "post the code, please"???
> This was the first time I asked for help here,
> I understand I had to post more information. My fault.
>
I keep being amazed (I suppose I shouldn't be, by now) at how bad many
people are at reporting problems (including some of the professional
software developers who are my colleagues).

Yours was actually better than many - you said what you were trying to
do and you even said what result you got (you'd be amazed how many
people looking for help just say it 'didn't work').

But you
> anyway, I solved the problem, it was easy...no perl!
>
> bye David.
>
> huge
>
I'm glad you solved your problem, but I have a great deal of sympathy
with David's reply. I don't think you would have got such a sarcastic
reply if you hadn't posted your aggressive second posting.

Of course, given you hadn't had a reply in the first 24 hours you
probably wouldn't have got one - because there was not enough
information in your original posting.

I work

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