On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 at 04:23:20 -0600, Dave Hoover wrote: > This works for me with decimals:
> ($x="@a") =~ s/([\d.]+) ?/$min||=$1;$min=$1<$min?$1:$min/eg; Sorry, this steps into the heffalump trap that "0" is false. (There was a prolonged and bitter debate on p5p about whether to have an "if defined" operator like ||. The "nos" won the day. The debate wasn't fun, so would be off-topic for this group :-) > > It's an interesting academic exercise, but for Larry's sake, don't use > > it in a real program! That should be for the Author's sake, don't you think? (On scanning the perl docs, I don't find the quotation that would make sense of that. Anyone know when it went and where it was, exactly?) Ian
