Here's my understanding, pretty sure I am very close, if not correct.

Foo and Bar are parts of a miliary acronym (or at least that is my understanding of
its origin), FooBar. Sometimes called FuBar. They stand for:

1) Fouled up beyond all recognition (family version) - or - 
2) F*** up beyond all recognition 

So it's a cute term to play around with as a neophyte, as your code will sometimes
be foobar.

Matt

--- Connie Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you Eric and Peter..... but.. I still don't understand......
> What is the meaning of foo in perl programming ? I see quite 
> a lot of sample codes use foo..... besides, and what is bar ?
> Is that a certain type of variable ?? just like a number or something
> like escape char ?? Please tell me more......
> 
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