Chris Wagner wrote: > At 02:39 PM 12/5/2006 -0500, Joe Discenza wrote: > >>The tr/// operator counts all the occurrences of the translated >>character(s) in $_ (the default), and then you just increment the @semis >>array at the index of the number of semicolons found to indicate another >>line with that number of semicolons. > > > Heh, clever, but probably too clever. That will give u an array full of > zero's. U can't have sparse arrays in perl. Doing ++$semis{ tr/;/;/ }; > would be better.
Sure you can. The unused/skipped cells will be undef which you can check for on the print. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs