On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, $Bill Luebkert wrote: > You can have an array and a scalar with the same name. @_ and $_ do not > refer to the same vrbl. $_[1] is not referring to $_ - it's referring > to the 2nd element of @_. This is just normal Perl syntax.
Yep, writing it out more descriptively makes the snippet readable. That was precisely the error I made. Thank you to all who responded! -- Jon Earle SAVE FARSCAPE http://www.savefarscape.com/ Vegetarian - an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'. _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
