thanks, its now working.. lesson learned: to identify the items inside the list, have to separate it using a space.
-nix -----Original Message----- From: Andres L. Figari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:43 AM To: Juban, Nix Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: My script doesnt print out the output i like #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @e=qw(| \ - /); while (1) { foreach (@e) { print $_."\b"; } } you needed a space between each character or it thought it was one word :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juban, Nix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Andres L. Figari'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Juban, Nix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 7:33 PM Subject: RE: My script doesnt print out the output i like > Nope, it didnt work but thanks for responding. > > it cancelled the \b, now it prints it. > > \b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\ > _/\b > |\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/ > \b|\ > _/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b > |\_/ > \b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\ > _/\b > |\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/ > \b|\ > _/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b > |\_/ > \b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\ > _/\b > |\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/ > \b|\ > _/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b > |\_/ > \b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\_/\b|\ > _/\b > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andres L. Figari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:25 AM > To: Juban, Nix > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: My script doesnt print out the output i like > > > BlankI think that when you print "\" it thinks it is an escape character, so > you would need "\\" check these out, I always have to look them up :) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Juban, Nix > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 7:19 PM > Subject: My script doesnt print out the output i like > > > Hi! > > Im just new to PERL and im trying this out...its suppose to make this line > tumble like a cartwheel. > > ##!/usr/intel/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use warnings; > > my @e=qw(|\_/); > while (1) > { > foreach (@e) > { > print $_."\b"; > } > } > > its just printing, something like this: > > _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| > |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ > _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| > |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ > _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| > |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ > _|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_| > |\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\_|\ > > need help ! > > cheers , > nix juban > Northwood-V Product Development Engineer > PG12 Tel. # 8-859-2354 (INET) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > -- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
