Re: How to see syntax of a function.

2001-12-17 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Dec 17, Leon said: >Sometimes I need to see the syntax of a particular function, so what must I >do. For *functions*, you can simply say perldoc -f FUNCNAME However, things like 'for' and 'if' and 'while' are not functions, but control structures. They are documented in the perlsyn secti

How to see syntax of a function.

2001-12-17 Thread Leon
Hi, I am now reading the book "Learning Perl" 3rd edition by Randal, and is trying to do chapter 1 exercise 2, pg 18, but I have the following problem which I hope members could assist me once and for all. I've installed activestate v5.6.1 Binary build 630 in my windows98 in d:\perl However whe