BlankI think that when you print "\" it thinks it is an escape character, so you would need "\\" check these out, I always have to look them up :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Juban, Nix To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 7:19 PM Subject: My script doesnt print out the output i like
Hi! Im just new to PERL and im trying this out...its suppose to make this line tumble like a cartwheel. ##!/usr/intel/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my @e=qw(|\_/); while (1) { foreach (@e) { print $_."\b"; } } its just printing, something like this: _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ need help ! cheers , nix juban Northwood-V Product Development Engineer PG12 Tel. # 8-859-2354 (INET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]