$#f stands for the last index of the array @f. So 2..$#f means "from index 2 to the last index". This means that the code is skipping $f[0] and $f[1].
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help with commenting code.. # grep each line for the declared variables while (<IN>) { print "parsing $_"; if ( /$JOBSTART|$TASKSUM|$TASKDET|$TASKEND|$ERROR|$JOBEND/i ) { # remove spaces and replace with commas my @f = split /\s+/,$_,9; print OUT join (',', @f[2..$#f]) ; ---> What does this line (above) do? I know it removes the first two fields? } else { print "skipped: '$_'\n"; } } === Mike Singleton Network Analyst (253) 272-1916 x1259 (253) 405-1968 (cellular) [EMAIL PROTECTED] DaVita Inc. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
