On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:15 AM, <m.roth at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com