eventual wrote:
Hi, How do I change the default list seperator.
I tried the following but it wont work. Thanks
$testing = "anything in here";
@rubbish = $testing;
You are assigning one scalar value to the whole array so only
$rubbish[0] will have any content.
$" = "in";
This is the correct way to change the value of the LIST SEPARATOR variable.
print "\@rubbish now have " . $#rubbish + 1 . " elements\n";
Your string does not use the list separator because you are not
interpolating the array in the string. For example:
print "\@rubbish now have @rubbish\n";
However, because @rubbish only has one element there is nothing to put
the list separator between. The list separator only appears if you have
two or more elements.
$ perl -le'
my @rubbish = "anything in here";
local $" = "**";
print "@rubbish";
push @rubbish, "next", "last";
print "@rubbish";
'
anything in here
anything in here**next**last
John
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