Comparing strings from the back?

Prasad, Ramit ramit.prasad at jpmorgan.com
Fri Sep 14 17:32:26 EDT 2012


Dwight Hutto wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > On 13/09/2012 21:34, Joshua Landau wrote:
> >>
> >> On 13 September 2012 20:53, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:acci sequence
> >>
> >>> On 13/09/2012 19:39, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dwight Hutto wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Why don' you just time it,eit lops through incrementing thmax input/
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> What? Without context I have no idea what this means.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>   You're wasting your time, I've been described as a jackass for having
> >>> the
> >>> audacity to ask for context :)
> >>

Mark,
Sometimes it is the style in which something is asked, and not what 
specifically is asked. ;)

> >>
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure you are in the wrong, acting as if what he said didn't
> >> make
> >> sense! Just read it, he obviously was telling you to time it, as eit lops
> >> are inside thmax input/ which, as you should know if you *bothered to read
> >> the thread*, is incrementing.
> >>
> >>
> >> "don'" is short for "don't", by the way.
> >
> > I do grovellingly apologize for my appalling breach of netiquette.  I am of
> > course assuming that the rules have changed and that it's now my
> > responsibility to wade back through maybe a couple of hundred responses on a
> > long thread to find the context.
>   I also guess that I'm never going to
> > achieve my ambition of being a pot smoking hippy CEO of a web development
> > company :(
> > --
> > Cheers.

> Cheers usually implies you're an alcoholic pressing buttons, with the
> half of rest of the coders on the net.

Dwight/David: 
Not necessarily true if you happen to be from the UK (or maybe just England). 
It seems to be a cultural signature equivalent to "Thanks"--at least in the 
UK (not sure about other places). 

[snip] 


Ramit


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