On Jan 10, 2008 9:26 AM, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > if ( $cnt = 0 ) {
>
> You are assigning 0 to $cnt so $cnt will always be false and the else
> block will always execute.
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This is one of the reasons the warnings and strict pragmas are so
important. The warnings pragma would have told you that you had a
assignment instead of a comparison in your if. You can turn on the
warnings and strict pragmas by saying this at the top of every Perl
program you write
use strict;
use warnings;
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