Greetings, Thanks Michael for your detailed explanation.
best, Shaji ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: Michael Rasmussen <mich...@jamhome.us> To: *Shaji Kalidasan* <shajiin...@yahoo.com> Cc: Perl Beginners <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013 10:37 AM Subject: Re: using join On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:59:29PM +0800, *Shaji Kalidasan* wrote: > Greetings, > > I am facing some difficulty using join to display the array elements > > Here is the code snippet > > [code] > use strict; > use warnings; > > my @fruits = qw/apple mango orange banana guava/; > > print '[', join '][', @fruits, ']'; > [/code] > > How can I make the output to eliminate the last empty square brackets [] > using a single print statement. I used two print statements as shown in the > code snippet above (#lines are commented out) Limit what join acts on by using parenthesis. print '[', join ( '][', @fruits ), ']'; This keeps your closing bracket from being part of the list that join is acting upon. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Follow the carrot. ~ http://someoneoncetoldme.com/gallery/14052010
