On Feb 9, filson said: >Indeed, but assigning a list like this: > >($first, $second) = qw/ blabla / > >or what ever is equivalent with a array assignment, would make $second >undef, right? >If this happens like a thousand times, I might get currious how much memory >perl would use for something like the undef value.
I believe all scalars take up the same amount of memory -- they are represented by a very specific structure. (See perlguts for the full details.) -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
