On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 03:28:39 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Poster) wrote:
>Hi, I am having a little trouble with a sub that is using the modulus
>operator.
Yeah, it fooled me too for a bit :-)
The problem is the way you pass the value to the
sub, @_ always is 1, the count of elements in @_.
Change @_ to @_[0] or better yet $_[0]
>
>It is called here-within a while loop:
>while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
> count++;
> color_rows( $count )
> ------some other stuff
> <td bgcolor="$bgcolor">table cell value</td>
> -----some other stuff
>}
>--here is the sub
>sub color_rows
>{
>my $num = @_;
my $num = $_[0];
>my $bgcolor;
>
>If ( $num % 2 == 0 ) {
> $bgcolor="#bde6de";
>} else {
> $bgcolor="white";
>}
>return $bgcolor;
>}#end sub
>
>I expect that when the value that is passed in $count is even it will
>set the row color green, otherwise it will set it to white. What it is
>actually doing is setting the value white every time.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Ramon Hildreth
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