Jan Eden wrote:
>
> Nilay Puri, Noida wrote:
> >
> >Can any one walk me thru this piece of code ::
> >
> >while(<STDIN>)
> >{
> > chomp ;
> > $isbn =(split(/^_/, $_))[0] ; --- not able to understand what is
> >being accessed (......)[0]
>
> That's the first element of the array returned by split
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Functions/subroutines in perl return a LIST, not an array.
perldoc -q "What is the difference between a list and an array"
John
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