Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "Ed Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispe
red:
| So we establish a var $something=n where n is the array origin.
You mean something like $[, which we've had for many, many years. And
which for many, many years we've discouraged the use of?
$[ The index of the first element in an array, and of
the first character in a substring. Default is 0,
but you could theoretically set it to 1 to make
Perl behave more like awk (or Fortran) when
subscripting and when evaluating the index() and
substr() functions. (Mnemonic: [ begins
subscripts.)
As of release 5 of Perl, assignment to `$[' is
treated as a compiler directive, and cannot
influence the behavior of any other file. Its use
is highly discouraged.
Please, let's not. It was more confusing than it was worth the first time.
-spp
