I figure if I never ask anything, I'll never learn...
So here's my first post to the list. What is strict?
I'm a newbie(think someone that only started
programming ANYTHING a couple weeks ago) so try and
stay simple. Thanks,
-Kathryn
--- Etienne Marcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1- Thanks for posting with a descriptive subjects:)
>
> 2- $_ is the default perl variable, when you don't
> specify one and you
> cann a while, foreach, etc, it has that variable in
> the $_. Right after
> declaring a variable, $_ stores that variable.
>
> the best if you don't want to play with $_ yet,
> declare a variable to
> hold the data
>
> you should always add use strict; to the top of you
> script, therefore
> you will have to declare @words using my
>
> print "please enter a word\n"; #neter is not
> english :)
> chomp (my @words = <STDIN>);
> foreach my $oneword (@words){
> printf "%20s\n", $oneword; #puts each
> value of the @word in
> $oneword.
> }
>
> (untested)
>
> HTH,
> Etienne
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am very new to PERL (as you will be able to
> tell!!!), can you please
> > explain my question below?
> >
> > When I run this piece of code (below) I am looking
> for more than one word
> > to be etered by the user and then the words that
> were entered are returned
> > to the user in a right justified 20 character
> column. However only the
> > first word I enter is returned when @words is used
> (where marked in bold)
> > but the $_ variable works correctly.
> >
> > Can you please tell me what the difference is and
> how does it work?
> >
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Brian
> >
> >
>
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