RE: Stupid newbie question.

2002-10-16 Thread Casto, Bryan J
$i is generally used as a counter or increment variable. It isn't a special variable. Most of the time you'd see it in something like this: Until ($i == 100) { # do this 100 times ...do something $i++;# increment $i by 1 } HTH Bryan J. Casto bryan . casto (a) marshall . edu

Re: Stupid newbie question.

2002-10-16 Thread Jason Tiller
Hi, Coe, :) On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, coe smythe wrote: > Can some one please explain $i to me? It is my understanding that > this is one of those special little variables. Sorry, and thanks. This isn't a stupid question... however, if you provided a little more context, perhaps we might be of mor