On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:15 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
But real books don't have that 'search' box up at the top...
<SNIP> Agree with one of the other responders about that's what the index is for. One of my "tests" for a book on the subject is to go to the index and see how easy it is to find the answers to some of the questions I have that have moved me to buy a book on the subject.
If you know the right question ahead of time you probably really don't need the book.
Reminds me of the *only* O'Reilly book I didn't like: I think it was Larry's original book on Perl - the index was *dreadful*, couldn't find anything.
On the other hand, if you wrote a perl program following those examples, it would almost certainly still run today, with the only change it might need being to escape @ symbols that you had in double-quoted strings. That's pretty rare.