Chris, your quoting mechanism is extremely unclear. It's difficult to
discern what you wrote and what the people you're quoting wrote.
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 20:05:14 -0400 , Chris Charley wrote:
> Hello JJ,
>
> It is sometimes helpful to put print statements in a routine to
> follow the flow of
""J. S. John"" wrote in message
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Hi all,
I'm teaching myself perl. Right now, I am stuck with this script. I
don't understand how it works. I know what it does and how to do it by
hand.
$n = 1;
while ($n < 10) {
$s
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:33 AM, J. S. John wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm teaching myself perl. Right now, I am stuck with this script. I
> don't understand how it works. I know what it does and how to do it by
> hand.
>
> $n = 1;
> while ($n < 10) {
>$sum += $n;
>$n += 2;
> }
> print "The sum is
On 7/8/11 Fri Jul 8, 2011 4:33 PM, "J. S. John"
scribbled:
> Hi all,
> I'm teaching myself perl. Right now, I am stuck with this script. I
> don't understand how it works. I know what it does and how to do it by
> hand.
>
> $n = 1;
> while ($n < 10) {
> $sum += $n;
> $n += 2;
> }
> pri
Hi all,
I'm teaching myself perl. Right now, I am stuck with this script. I
don't understand how it works. I know what it does and how to do it by
hand.
$n = 1;
while ($n < 10) {
$sum += $n;
$n += 2;
}
print "The sum is $sum.\n"
I know $sum is initially 0 (undef). I see that $sum becomes
