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Do your own searching
Before asking somebody for help, it's best to first search for the answer yourself. Regulary, beginning Perl programmers ask questions that have been asked many times before by other beginning Perl programmers. And these questions have been answered many times... Most Perl programmers will tell you to do some reading yourself at first, then try to write some simple Perl code, read a bit more, experiment a bit more, adapt the code, look in the frequently asked questions (because many questions and answers are already available), and only then ask others for help. So, ask a question only when you figured out what it is that you actually want to know. Many beginners actually don't know what they're really asking, what they are really looking for, what it really is what they mean. It is very hard to give an answer to somebody who asks a very vague question. |