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Message: [QUOTE="Henry Law, post: 4823454"] Not my experience at all. I have several times recently posted here with some Perl problem, and always had prompt, accurate and wise advice. From time to time people have put themselves out to help me, e.g. installing modules in order to run my problem code and so on. Do you understand the truth - and therefore the irony - of what you've just written? If a poster spends the time required to follow the guidelines (Googling, pruning the problem program down to its essence, providing good test data, checking code levels and so forth) time after time the solution becomes clear. In other words the whole point of the guidelines is not so much that they've been followed: it's that following them helps clarify the problem and makes it easier for someone - often the poster - to find the solution. [/QUOTE]