On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 08:39:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Geez, is that your real name?
Yes, it is. However, where I live, few people find it remarkable. If
I ever felt bad about it, maybe laughing a bit about Johnny Depp's
name would cheer me up ("Depp" means "idiot" in German
From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That did correct the problem. I don't understand what local $_; did.
> So a while loop will change $_ if it is inside a foreach loop since
> both use $_?
Please do not top-post!
local stores the actual value of a global variable, undefines it and
restor
From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That did correct the problem. I don't understand what local $_; did.
> So a while loop will change $_ if it is inside a foreach loop since
> both use $_?
Please do not top-post!
local stores the actual value of a global variable, undefines it and
restores
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:28:17PM -0400, Paul Kraus wrote:
> That did correct the problem. I don't understand what local $_; did.
> So a while loop will change $_ if it is inside a foreach loop since both
> use $_?
Read M.J. Dominus' "Coping with Scoping", available at
http://perl.plover.com/FAQ
bject: Re: Why is $_ being change.
From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have two subroutines that are have unexpected results. The first is
> passed an array ref to a list of file names. It then calls a
> subroutine and passes a file name to that subroutine.
From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have two subroutines that are have unexpected results. The first is
> passed an array ref to a list of file names. It then calls a
> subroutine and passes a file name to that subroutine. When that
> routine finishes everything in the @files that was passed
