On Jan 19, Naveen Parmar said: >What does $ stand for in the following statement? > >print"$_\t", "*" x $n, "\n";
$_ is a variable. It's the default variable, for things like loops and whatnot. perldoc perlvar -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
