On Oct 27, John W. Krahn said: >> So what did "localtime[4]" (without parens) do? > >my $x = localtime[4]; > >Is the same as: > >my $x = localtime; > >Which assigns the scalar value of localtime to $x. The [4] part is >ignored.
No, it is not ignored. localtime() takes an argument -- a number of seconds. References (such as \$x, \@y, \%z, and [4]) return a number in numerical context. $x = localtime[4]; is the same as $x = localtime(0 + [4]); -- 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]
