Colin Johnstone wrote: > > Gidday all, Hello,
> In PHP if I want to add something to a string I do this > > $output = ""; > > $output .= "A"; > $output .= "B"; > $output .= "C"; > $output .= "D"; > > print $output; > > How do I do the same in PERL please. That does the same thing in perl: $ perl -le' $output = ""; $output .= "A"; $output .= "B"; $output .= "C"; $output .= "D"; print $output; ' ABCD Of course Perl's motto is "There's more than one way to do it" so: $ perl -le' $output = ""; substr $output, length $output, 0, "A"; substr( $output, length $output, 0 ) = "B"; $output =~ s/$/C/; $output = "${output}D"; vec( $output, length $output, 8 ) = ord "E"; $output = sprintf "%s%s", $output, "F"; print $output; ' ABCDEF :-) John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]