Hi Anirban, Join works this way only. However u can accomplish your task as follows:
-----Original Message----- From: Anirban Adhikary [mailto:anirban.adhik...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:08 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Question related Join function Dear List >>I have doubt about the exact working of join function. I have written the following small code use strict; use warnings; >>my @array= join ("-k", @ARGV ); Use here scalar instead of array. $current_ans = join ("-k", @ARGV ); Then $final_ans = "-k"."current_ans"; Then use $final_ans in your script for further processing using regex or by converting $final_ans into arrray. >>print "@array\n"; >>I am running the program as follows which producing the following output [anadhik...@strawberry test_prog]$ perl te>>>>st1.pl 1 2 3 >>1-k2-k3 >>[anadhik...@strawberry test_prog]$ >>Now my question is why the beginning -k is missing from the output and how It can be solved? _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail message may contain proprietary, confidential or legally privileged information for the sole use of the person or entity to whom this message was originally addressed. Any review, e-transmission dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error kindly delete this e-mail from your records. If it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, please notify us immediately at netad...@patni.com and delete this mail. _____________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/