Hi All,
am new to Perl. I'm followig this tutorial,
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/resources/perl/perl-basics/variables.html
and am confused as to why the below shows examples with $ and some with
% at the beginning of the statement. When it says, "Perl uses the
"percent" symbol and curly braces
Hello Mark,
> am new to Perl. I'm followig this tutorial,
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/resources/perl/perl-basics/variables.html
>
> and am confused as to why the below shows examples with $ and
> some with % at the beginning of the statement. When it says,
> "Perl uses the "percent" symbol
Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
Hello,
> am new to Perl. I'm followig this tutorial,
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/resources/perl/perl-basics/variables.html
That web site was last updated 8 years ago and is talking about Perl4 while
the current version of Perl is 5.8. And even if you are still
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:09:04 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> am new to Perl. I'm followig this tutorial,
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/resources/perl/perl-basics/variables.html
>
> and am confused as to why the below shows examples with $ and some with
> % at the beginning of the sta
Peter Scott wrote:
>
> You refer to the whole hash with %. You refer to any member of it with $.
> Why? The hash is a container; it has its own behavior. Each item in the
> container is a scalar. Scalars begin with $ in Perl. Figure out whether
> you're talking about the container or an it
Mark Sargent said:
> Hi All,
>
> am new to Perl. I'm followig this tutorial,
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/resources/perl/perl-basics/variables.html
>
> and am confused as to why the below shows examples with $ and some with
> % at the beginning of the statement. When it says, "Perl uses the
> "p
Please read a book, like the perl beginners patiently.
Anyway to explain in simple terms
% is used for denoting the entire hash ( associative array )
$ is used for accessing a single element
HTH
Ram
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