What is eval?

Can anybody explain the functionality of eval in brief? Thanks in advance, Mallik. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is eval?

On Jan 29, Mallik said: >Can anybody explain the functionality of eval in brief? For starters, please read 'perldoc -f eval'. All Perl functions are explained in detail in the standard documentation. eval() has two forms. The first takes a string, and treats it as Perl code. It compiles and e

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http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/eval.html Bradley -Original Message- From: Mallik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:26 AM To: Perl Beginners Subject: What is eval? Can anybody explain the functionality of eval in brief? Thanks in advance, Mallik

Re: What is eval?

Mallik wrote: Can anybody explain the functionality of eval in brief? There are two different flavors of eval(). The "string" version looks like this: eval $code; And it treats its argument as a string containing Perl source code, which it compiles and executes. The "block" version looks lik

Re: What is eval?

On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:26 AM, Mallik wrote: Can anybody explain the functionality of eval in brief? perldoc -f eval James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is eval?

James Edward Gray II wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:26 AM, Mallik wrote: > > > Can anybody explain the functionality of eval in brief? > > perldoc -f eval How succinct! /R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]