> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Holstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 6:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: quick sort --help me
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> ...
> Perlish: print "Enter the $_ number", $a[$_-1] = <STDIN> for (1 .. 4);
Note that the assignment is seen as a term in the list supplied to
print, so it will be executed *before* the prompt is printed.
To make the comma into a sequence operator, you need to add parens:
print("Enter the $_ number"), $a[$_-1] = <STDIN> for (1 .. 4);
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