Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
> On Jan 29, Rob Dixon said:
>
> >Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> >>
> >> while (<FILE>) {
> >> print "small " if 1 .. 10;
> >> print "medium " if 6 .. 15;
> >> print "big " if 11 .. 20;
> >> print "\n";
> >> }
> >
> >Careful here Jeff. '..' compares its operands with $.
> >(current record number) in a scalar context.
>
> Yes, I know. That's the intent. The thing printed is describing the
> size of the line number. This wasn't a typo.
OK Jeff. It's just that I would have expected something like
qw/early mid late/ or qw/start middle end/. Line numbers
are ordinal, not cardinal.
Rob
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