On 17/03/2011 18:43, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 11-03-17 02:04 PM, Rob Dixon wrote:

A beginners list isn't the place to introduce arbitrarily complex Perl
constructs. Replies have to be sensitive to the ability of the OP or
they may co

On the other hand, telling them to use a kluge to get the results they
want is very bad advice. Tell them to do it right from the start.

If you want to tack the data together into a string, do it right:

[snip sixty lines of code]

We have established that Chris's data is numeric. Your code is overkill.

I disagree with you. Let's leave it that way.

Rob

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