On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:41:19PM -0500, Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
> Smith, Derek wrote:
>
> : Excellent... thank you. Before sending the email question, I
> : was trying to use split to get rid of that and could not get
> : it to work as I was using
> : <code>
> :
> : For (<FH>)
> : If (/pattern/) {
> : split /\=/ ,$_ /;
> : $vg{$_}++
> : }
> : }
> : </code>
> :
> : Why didn't this work?
>
> Because it is wrong on so many levels. Seriously, assuming
> the capitalization of "for" and "if" are typos, you can't just
> add a slash "/" wherever you want to and expect perl to know
> why. Assuming that trailing slash is also a typo, And you
> really meant this ...
Apologies, Charles, I accidentally sent that off-list. So, resend:
Maybe the capitalization of "for" and "if" wasn't a typo -- it might
have been the result of writing code in MS Word with auto-capitalization
turned on.
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