On Thursday 18 April 2002 6:57 pm, Allison Ogle wrote:
> Maybe it is because I am assigning my array to a line from another document
> and not assigning letters dirtectly to the array because it still doesn't
> work. It could be there is something wrong with my code too.
>
>
> $word=<DATA>; #where <DATA> is the filehandle and therefore $word gets the
> string from the inputfile. Something like ABCD for example
> chomp $word;
> @code = split //,$word; #this assigns thestring to the array @code. The
> values stored in @code are now A B C D
> $y=0;
> if($code[$y] ne "F"){
> print "$code[$y]\n";
> $code[$y]=$code[$y]+1;
I think this is your problem. You're adding a number to a letter which I
think is getting evaluated to adding 0 to 1 which if course is 1.
What you actually want is
$code[$y]++;
> print "$code[$y]\n";}
>
> This prints A and then 1. I can't figure out why. Is there something wrong
> with my coding? Thanks for the help so far.
>
> Allison
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