Cant figure out how key's value in a hash is created in program example.............

2001-12-20 Thread Brian_Blake
Hi there, Very new to PERL (chapter 5 Learning PERL edition 2!!) but I am determined to master this!! Or at least be good at it!! I'm having trouble grasping the code below. I know it's a small snippet but I think it's important. Can you please explain the $count variable and how the %count cam

How does the $_ variable work?

2001-12-18 Thread Brian_Blake
Hi, I am very new to PERL (as you will be able to tell!!!), can you please explain my question below? When I run this piece of code (below) I am looking for more than one word to be etered by the user and then the words that were entered are returned to the user in a right justified 20 character