The x operator takes a string and a number and repeats the string number
times.
For example:
print "dog" x 3;
prints: dogdogdog
You can look at
perldoc perlop
or buy Learning Perl from O'Reilly.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Beginners" <" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"@glennmeyer.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: shrinking code
> Please, tell me what your are doing here. I have seen similar short code
> before but have no idea how to read it or why it works. Can you point me
to
> docs or a boox the would help? Thanks!
>
> On Tuesday 09 April 2002 10:14 pm, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
> > print "-" x 80;
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Gargiullo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:13 PM
> > Subject: shrinking code
> >
> > > How can I write this smaller?
> > >
> > > while($m < 80){
> > > print "-";
> > > $m++
> > > }
> > >
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