Stuart White wrote: > > <snip> > > > > Of course, then all the numbers are squished > > together. > > > (How else might I say that?) > > > > I don't know, what do you mean by "squished > > together"? > > > without spaces between each number. (it was late last > night and I had a mental block.) > > > > So my solution is to > > > "stringify" the array of numbers by putting the > > array > > > inside double quotes and assigning it to itself. > > That > > > seems to work. > > > > How does that "seem to work"? > > Well, it seemed to work because I thought that I was > getting those numbers into an array, an element for > each number.
They were already in an array. > But as you point out later, I just got > them into the first element. > > <snip> > So when I get the number from the user, I thought that > the simplest way to get all the numbers in between was > to use the range operator, and then store those > numbers into an array. Yes that is the simplest way. > Is there a way I can do that? > Is using the range operator not a good way to go about > getting the numbers in between and then storing them > into an array? Yes, you originally had them in an array and then modified that array by putting all the elements into the array as a single string. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
