Hi, Please be patient with this beginner. I have a subrouting as follows, that prints out an ASCII representation of chess board
sub display_board { foreach (0..7) { my $ref = @_[$_]; foreach (0..7) { my $piece = $ref->[$_]; $piece =~ /.*(..$)/; print $pieces{$1}; } print "\n"; } }; It works, but is there a way of combining these lines: my $piece = $ref->[$_]; $piece =~ /.*(..$)/; It feels like this could be done in one step. Is this correct? I'm finding that I'm doing alright in Perl, but I sense the Perl urge to do things in as few a number of steps as possible. Thanks, Richard Hobson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/