On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM, LesleyB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > BTW I use a Debian system and use perldoc quite a lot. To check the > syntax for this problem I did > 'perldoc perlintro' and then searched for the word array. The > solution to your problem is there. Not sure how you get to this sort > of information on a cygwin platform. snip
The perldoc command is available as part of Core Perl; however, some Linux distributions (Ubuntu I am looking at you) put it in a separate package. On Win32 platforms, Cygwin*, Strawberry Perl**, and ActivePerl*** all include perldoc. And there is always perldoc.perl.org which has the full text of the perldocs (minus non-core modules, use search.cpan.org for those). One benefit of the hypertext version is that you can link directly to part of the docs****. * http://cygwin.com/ ** http://strawberryperl.com/ *** http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/ **** http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html#Arrays -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
