On Thursday 18 April 2002 6:57 pm, Allison Ogle wrote: > Maybe it is because I am assigning my array to a line from another document > and not assigning letters dirtectly to the array because it still doesn't > work. It could be there is something wrong with my code too. > > > $word=<DATA>; #where <DATA> is the filehandle and therefore $word gets the > string from the inputfile. Something like ABCD for example > chomp $word; > @code = split //,$word; #this assigns thestring to the array @code. The > values stored in @code are now A B C D > $y=0; > if($code[$y] ne "F"){ > print "$code[$y]\n"; > $code[$y]=$code[$y]+1;
I think this is your problem. You're adding a number to a letter which I think is getting evaluated to adding 0 to 1 which if course is 1. What you actually want is $code[$y]++; > print "$code[$y]\n";} > > This prints A and then 1. I can't figure out why. Is there something wrong > with my coding? Thanks for the help so far. > > Allison -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]