Vineet Pande wrote: > Hi Hello,
> In the following code > > **************************************************************** > #!/usr/bin/perl > use warnings; > use strict; > > my $found = 0; > $_ = "Nobody wants to hurt you... 'cept, I do hurt people sometimes, > Case."; > > my $sought = "people"; > > foreach my $word (split) { > if ($word eq $sought) { > $found = 1; > last; > } > } > if ($found) { > print "ok"; > } > ~ > ~ > I don't understand the usage my $word (split).....how is $_ and $word > linked? They aren't linked. What made you think that they were? John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>