Simple Web-site question

2002-11-10 Thread Gajo Csaba
Hi, I'm troubled by something I guess is easy to solve. I have a web site form, with two edit boxed, the user should write in two numbers there and the result should be their sum. I wrote something like this sub sum { $result = $_[0] + $_[1]; return $result; } The user types in 4 and 5. And

The basics of SWITCH

2002-11-04 Thread Gajo Csaba
Hi, I have a problem with SWITCH. I wrote this, I think it's clear to anzone what it should do: print "Type in a number 1-5: "; $s = ; SWITCH; { if ($s == 1) { print "one\n"; last SWITCH; } if ($s == 2) { print "two\n"; last SWITCH; } if ($s == 3) { print "three\n"; last SWITCH; } if ($s == 4

I'm learning the basics of functions. Help!

2002-11-01 Thread Gajo Csaba
Hi, I'm trying to write a simple Hanoi tower program. Here is the procedure I've wrote (with line numbers): # hanoj (src,hlp,tgt,num) # src,tgt,hlp,n-1 src,hlp,tgt,1 hlp,src,tgt,n-1 3: sub hanoj 4: { 5: if ($_[3] <= 1) 6: { 7:print "From $_[0] we put on $_[2] with the help of $_ [1]

Silly question

2002-10-31 Thread Gajo Csaba
While I'm at silly questions, I guess I could ask this one too: what is the difference between a " " and a ' '. I have a book that explains it to me in one sentence, and I don't understand one word that the author's using (I suck at English), so could someone explain it to me? An example would

A very, very simple question

2002-10-31 Thread Gajo Csaba
Hi, I've started learning Perl a few days ago, but I'm a computer science student, so I'm not a complete idiot :) This is the problem: I'm trying to make a simple 2D matrix that represents the product of the numbers 1-10 (don't know how to tell it in English, it's that table that kids learn when