On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:20:23 -0600
"Daryl Fallin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is a totally newbie question, but I am doing a recursive
> subroutine and I would like to print  a tab (\t) for each recursion
> into the subroutine.
> 
> I thought something like print ("\t{$level} $rest $of $mydata");
> would work.

   You're looking for something like this: 

   print "\t" x $level . "$rest $of $mydata"; 

   The construct "x" tells print to repeat the previous part $level
   times. 

   Hope that helps. 

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   Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   http://www.wiles.org
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