> > (at
> > least I think so) locations in the file, a random tip is displayed. Once
> > it
> > is, it has to be marked as used. Currently, I'm doing this:
> >
> > # Tip is done; remove it
> > $tips[$tip_num] = $tips[$num_tips - 1];
> > undef $tips[$num_tips - 1];
> >
o node `perlfunc'. Am I missing something?
perldoc is not a function but a utility.
try "perldoc perldoc".
-Sharad
-Original Message-
From: Abhijit Shylanath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:33 AM
To: Dan Muey
Cc: Perl Beginners
Subject: RE: Removing ent
> Well you could actually put them in a hash with a number as the key and
> the tip as th evalue then undefine the value of a key once it's used.
Won't that be an unnecesary waste of memory and clock cycles? How efficient
are the Perl hashing routines anyway?
> my $random_key = ( keys %tips )[ r
Abhijit,
http://www.perldoc.com/
As an experienced programmer, you will already
know what you want to do most of the time. You
might want to look at the Perl Functions by Category
section of perlfunc. Perldoc.com allows you to
search for this file by version.
Perl version 5.8.0:
ht
Abhijit Shylanath said:
> Greets, all. This is my first post here... I'm a seasoned C/C++
> programmer,
> and recently started learning perl... it's going along well, and as an
> exercise, I've completely Perl'ed my webpage. I'm still a little dizzy
> because of the different directions it's pull
> Greets, all. This is my first post here... I'm a seasoned
> C/C++ programmer, and recently started learning perl... it's
> going along well, and as an exercise, I've completely Perl'ed
> my webpage. I'm still a little dizzy because of the different
Howdy, cool, you'll love perl a lot there's
It was Friday, June 20, 2003 when Abhijit Shylanath took the soap box, saying:
:
: Greets, all. This is my first post here... I'm a seasoned C/C++ programmer,
: and recently started learning perl... it's going along well, and as an
: exercise, I've completely Perl'ed my webpage. I'm still a little
Greets, all. This is my first post here... I'm a seasoned C/C++ programmer,
and recently started learning perl... it's going along well, and as an
exercise, I've completely Perl'ed my webpage. I'm still a little dizzy
because of the different directions it's pulling me towards, but it's fun
anyway
