Thanks! Changing:
my $message = @_;
to:
my ($message) = @_;
did put the correct value in the string.
If anyone cares to explain the difference between the code I had and the code
Shishir suggested so I can understand why this makes a difference, I'm all
ears!
Thanks again,
-Ian
Shishir K.
Basically with the @_ and not having parens is like
$var = scalar(@_); # which is one since @_ is to subs what
@ARGV is to incoming Arguments passed to a module.
So by doing the parens, you are populating the variables on the left
with values being passed into the
Thanks! Changing:
my $message = @_;
to:
my ($message) = @_;
did put the correct value in the string.
If anyone cares to explain the difference between the code I had and the code
Shishir suggested so I can understand why this makes a difference, I'm all
ears!
@_ is an array.
You were
