cool thanks. and yes i'm reading perlreftut but not perlref. perlref looks a bit too exhaustive for my purposes now. perhaps in the future when i become more advanced in the ways of perl.
and Timothy, yeah i'm sure there are difference of course, but i guess i was asking very generally if it is a gross mistake to think of them as pointers. thanks for the example...=) -- christopher On Friday 06 December 2002 02:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You are correct they are similar. I hope your tutorial includes: > > perldoc perlref > perldoc perlreftut -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]