On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:26:03PM -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: > On 12/18/2003 7:00 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote: > >On Dec 18, 2003, at 5:48 PM, Mike Blezien wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>been trying to come up with a way, while going through a loop to > >>alternate a table cell color <td></td>.... > > > > > >See if this gets you thinking along the right lines: > > > >my $odd = 1; > >while (<>) { # some kind of loop... > > if ($odd) { > > # do something > > $odd = 0; > > } > > else { > > # do something else > > $odd = 1; > > } > >} > > > > or > > my $alt; > while (<>) { # some kind of loop... > if ($alt = !$alt) { > # do something > } > else { > # do something else > } > }
or while (<>) { if ($|--) { # do something } else { # do something else } } Oh, no. Hold on. On second thoughts ... -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>