Tiago Hori wrote:
Hey Guys,
I am a real beginner so at the risk of being slammed by some, I wanted to
get some input.
I'm a beginner, too. I've worked through this chapter somewhat
recently, so my advice shouldn't be too hard to understand :-)
Hopefully _I_ don't get slammed!
I was trying to do exercise 5 of the 5th edition of learning perl:
You forgot to include "Chapter 4" but that's ok, it wasn't hard to find
based on the context since I had the book right here :-)
I'll snip most of your code to the part that I think may be what's
slowing you down.
my @peoplec = @people;
my $lastperson = shift @peoplec;
my $beforelast = shift @peoplec;
I think I see what you did, but you can probably make it easier by
taking advantage of how 'print' handles arrays as a whole. An example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
use strict;
my @designations = ( 'red', 'two', 'rogue', 'leader' );
print "my array contains: @designations";
# displays the following....
# my array contains: red two rogue leader
Then you shouldn't have to iterate through each item of the array, or
'shift' off items from a duplicated array. The problem didn't include
commas in the output, which (for me), signaled that I could probably
just 'print' the entire array at once.
ground. I have to say this list is a bit daunting and does not look like a
beginners list at all. I think it, as Cat Stevens would say, a wild world
out there, but some of us are just trying to get by.
That's my view from outside, really outside.
I hear ya! Keep trying :-)
Brian
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