I like this solution! Cool.... Thanks George and David.
JW --- George Schlossnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 02:40 PM, Wagner, David --- Senior > Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: > > > Jeff Westman wrote: > >> This may sound trivial, but I am trying to declare and assign multiple > >> scalars to the same variable in the same statement. This is what I > >> have: > >> > >> #!/bin/perl -w > >> $a = $b = "apple"; # works > >> use strict; > >> my ($a = $b) = "apple"; # does not works > > do: > > my ($a,$b) = ("apple", "apple"); > > or > > my ($a, $b) = ("apple")x2; > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]