well yes I thought I tried that, but maybe I type something wrong b/c I am not seeing what I remember. Yours works!
thanks! Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams 614-566-4145 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/04/2004 06:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: question [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the last unless statement saying "break out of the loop only > when @a is read completely through? In effect: Yes. > I also have a formatting question. The output is printing a ' > after a newline A wild guess would be that it's because the "'" is printed after the printing of a "\n". ;-) Have you tried: print join ($or_string, @output), $tick, "\n"; -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>