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llama
06-28-2006, 02:17 AM
Okay, I was browsing through your perl pages for review (haven't written a program for it in a few months, need to write one soon, oh dear), and I've found a good bit of mistakes in one of the perl tutorial pages, and I just think it would look a little cleaner if it was fixed up. I don't mean to be a snob; I understand mistakes, we all write when we're tired sometimes. (Why, I'm tired right now. I'm just in a very grammatically proper kind of exhaustion, that's all. ;))

To cut right to it- here's what needs fixing up:

On the "Perl Strings" page (http://www.tizag.com/perlT/perlstrings.php):

First paragraph, last sentence: the word "sting" is used, where "string" should be used.

Second paragraph, first sentence: the word "man" is used where "may" should be used.

In the results box called formatstrings.pl, you're demonstrating the use of the perl control character "\n", but the results box does not show a line break (there should be a line break between the 'to' and 'tizag.com!' of the second string)

Oh yeah, and on the next page, (perl numbers (http://www.tizag.com/perlT/perlnumbers.php)), you spell arithmetic as "arithmatic". That's just a typo, and you don't even need to change it. The only people it annoys are the occasional spelling-obsessive people like me. :p

On the Perl Arrays (http://www.tizag.com/perlT/perlarrays.php) page you spell assigned as "asigned" in the first paragraph.

TizagBrian
06-28-2006, 08:01 AM
Awesome stuff, thanks Llama. The Perl tutorial thanks you for your TLC and these typos will be fixed in the next version of Tizag that we make live.

TizagBrian
06-28-2006, 12:59 PM
Just an FYI, I was changing around the way our CMS handles white space (specifically line breaks) and there are probably a lot more of these:

In the results box called formatstrings.pl, you're demonstrating the use of the perl control character "\n", but the results box does not show a line break (there should be a line break between the 'to' and 'tizag.com!' of the second string)


The old way we handled white space didn't follow the ever important creed: KISS (keep it simple stupid) so it looks like now we're paying for it.

If anyone sees one of those line break errors, just hollah so we can swoop in and fix em!

TizagRob
06-28-2006, 04:46 PM
Typos typos typos! I swear when it comes to spellcheck I'm absolutely incapable of it. A big hearty thank you for pointing those out and much love.

llama
06-30-2006, 08:42 PM
glad to help :)