Hello John,

You could explain the below line ?

 print join( ',', ( $arrow[ $_ ] ) x ( $_ + 1 ) ),
"\n";

Thanks,

Rodrigo Faria


--- "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:

> Chas Owens wrote:
> > On 7/31/07, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > snip
> >> Or more simply as:
> >>
> >> #!/usr/bin/perl
> >>
> >> use strict;
> >> use warnings;
> >>
> >> print 'Enter 5 digits: ';
> >> ( my @arrow = <STDIN> =~ /\d/g ) == 5 or die
> "Only five digits !\n";
> >>
> >> for ( 0 .. $#arrow ) {
> >>      print join( ',', ( $arrow[ $_ ] ) x ( $_ + 1
> ) ), "\n";
> >>      }
> >>
> >> __END__
> > snip
> > 
> > Two issues:
> >     this doesn't fail on "foo1bar2baz345"
> >     it does fail on "1234" (the original doesn't)
> > 
> > I was thinking
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > 
> > use strict;
> > use warnings;
> > 
> > print 'Enter 5 digits: ';
> > my @a = <STDIN> =~ /^(\d)(\d)?(\d)?(\d)?(\d)?$/g
> 
> You are using the /g option but the pattern is
> anchored at the beginning and 
> ending of the line so it will only match once making
> the /g option 
> superfluous.  (Even if you added the /m option it
> would still only contain one 
> line because the readline is in scalar context so
> the /g option would still be 
> superfluous.  :-)
> 
> 
> >         or die "Only five digits !\n";
> > my $i = 1;
> > print map { $_ x $i++, "\n" } @a;
> 
> 
> John
> -- 
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> and
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