Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] An idea for guestbook.pl

[iain t. <ic...@eh...>]

* Joseph F. Ryan (rya...@os...) [16 Nov 2001 05:58]:

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> The algorithm would work something like this: first, the guestbook
> page is read in. It is gone through line by line, printing each line
> if it does not contain <!--BEGIN-->, until the first line where
> <!--BEGIN--> is encountered, at which point the loop exits. The
> entries are then printed. Then the rest of the page is printed.

But, but --- it *does* use that method.

It reads the entire file in, then prints it back out to itself. If it
finds the string '<!-- begin -->' it emits the new entry.


cheers,
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iain.                                          <http://eh.org/~koschei/>