On Oct 17, 2001 at 12:38 -0400, Kirrily Robert took the soap box and proclaimed:
: I told Casey I wanted to do this a while back, and tonight I finally got
: the time for it. The plan is to put a big notice at the top of perl.pod
: which says "New to Perl? New to the Perl documentation? Read perlintro
: FIRST for an overview."
I really like this. Excelent overview. If I were a beginner staring
at a Perl program, trying to figure it out. I woul find this document
useful. If I were a beginner trying to get a feel for Perl, this
document would be helpful.
Some (mostly useless) nit picks...
: =item Arrays
:
: An array represents a list of values:
:
: my @animals = ("camel", "llama", "owl");
: my @numbers = (23, 42, 69);
: my @mixed = ("camel", 42, 1.23);
:
: Arrays are zero-indexed. Here's how you get at elements in an array:
:
: print $animals[0]; # prints "camel"
: print $animals[1]; # prints "llama"
: print $numbers[$#number]; # last element, prints 1.23
That would print 1.23 if it were
print $mixed[$#mixed];
Right there you would be getting the number 69.
[snip]
: if ($email =~ /([^@]+@(.*)/) {
Was that actually to be more like /([^@]+)@(.+)/ ?
: print "Username is $1\n";
: print "Hostname is $2\n";
: }
Casey West
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You perform a shooting on what might be currently a foot with what
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