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<font size=2>At 05:38 PM 1/15/05 -0800, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi Sandy--<br><br>
I'd say the book is trying to discourage this type of thing:<br><br>
my @array = ( '00', '01', '02', '03' );<br>
$array[4] = '04';<br><br>
in favor of:<br><br>
my @array = ( '00', '01', '02', '03' );<br>
push @array, '04';<br><br>
Using push will prevent you from typo-ing "$array[44] =
'04';"<br>
which'll result in an array where elements 4 through 43 are
undef!</blockquote><br>
Oh, good point. Thanks!</font><br>
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--Sandy Santra</font></html>