Excellent, thanks. I wonder, though, the book I'm using, Perl by Example, says that print individual elements of an array, @name, to use scalars, eg. $name[1], $name[2], etc. While your way is much easier and works well, I wonder why my original syntax did not produce the desired result?
Joshua > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:16 PM > To: Joshua Lokken; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: printing elements of an array > > > > > Hello > > Howdy > > > > > > > This should be very straightforward: > > > > > > print "Enter 5 of your favorite foods: "; > > > $favorites = ( <STDIN> ); > > [snip] > > > > > > > The desired output would be: > > > > > > food1 food2 food3 food4 food5 > > > > > > food1 > > > food2 > > > food3 > > > food4 > > > food5 > > > > > > > > > Can someone steer me in the right direction? > > my @favs = split(/\s+/, $fav); > print @favs; > for(@favs) { print "-$_-\n"; } > > HTH > > Dmuey >
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