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if ($folderOn) {
    my $hot = ($ActivityCount >= $Gbl_ActivityCount)
        ? true
        : false;
    my $new = false;
    my $userID = $Gbl_Cookie{'UserID'};
    if ($userID > 0) {
      if ($lastMsgTime > $timeHorizon) {
        my $timeOfLastAccess =
            &GetQueryDatum("select Time from $Gbl_ThreadAccessTimesTable " .
                           "where TID=$threadID && MBRID=$userID");
        if (!$timeOfLastAccess || $timeOfLastAccess < $lastMsgTime) {
          $new = true;
        }
      }
    }
    $folderHTML =
        (qq(\n

I've given you director privileges, thanks for the help.The new feature in the control panel is the appearance themes - multiple ones can be defined, and you can switch easily between them.You'll also notice a link for dynamic menus, but they're not working yet. You can play with the control panel for dynamic menus, but you can't see the results.

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Which doesn't help me. How similar is it to true basic or fortran? Most of my programing has been to solve problems, rather than write reports.Perl - Wikipedia

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Perl takes lists from Lisp, ...

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I've done lisp (Left-handed Inverted Sense Programing?), don't like it.What version do you recommend? I looked at some tutorials, and they assumed you could use Perl on your machine, and I note it is open source and available here:
Perl Download - www.perl.orgI'd be interested in trying it in a Linux environment.tutorials
Beginner's Introduction to Perl

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A Word About Operating Systems

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In this series, I'm going to assume that you're using a Unix system and that your Perl interpreter is located at /usr/local/bin/perl. It's OK if you're running Windows; most Perl code is platform-independent.

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Your First Perl Program

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Take the following text and put it into a file called first.pl:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "Hi there!\n";

(Traditionally, first programs are supposed to say Hello world!, but I'm an iconoclast.)

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Now, run it with your Perl interpreter. From a command line, go to the directory with this file and type perl first.pl. You should see:

Hi there!

The \n indicates the ``newline'' character; without it, Perl doesn't skip to a new line of text on its own.

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There are (free) html webpage generators (nvu or KompoZer for instance) where you can work in wysiwyg space, or in html code space - is there anything like that for Perl? (or would one need to use Perl to make one?)Enjoy.

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Perl often comes installed by default on Linux systems. If you already have Linux installed then just check if it's on your search path by giving the "which perl" command.If Perl isn't found it may be your search path that is at fault, so look in /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin.If your Linux system doesn't have Perl already installed then simply download the appropriate binary from the perl.org site.I wouldn't compare Perl to Basic, but it's much more like structured Basic than Fortran. Hopefully nothing again is ever like Fortran. Perl doesn't really resemble Lisp. In Perl, lists and arrays are the same thing. An array can be defined with a simple list, e.g.: You then access the array or list with an index, e.g.: Wysiwyg HTML editors generate HTML. It would be taking an indirect route to generate Perl code to generate the HTML.The tutorial excerpt you provided contains a minor error. Assuming the bang line in the Perl file contains the correct path to Perl ("#!/usr/local/bin/perl"), then you don't need to type "perl first.pl", you only need to type "./first.pl". And if "." is in your search path then you only need "first.pl".Edited by Admin, : Grammar.

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	EvC Forum Director