Phoenix.pm: Perl 101

[Doug Miles]

Thanks Kevin!

I'll add this info into my presentation.  I guess it was just something
I had never tried before.

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> On Jul 7, 10:48am, Doug Miles wrote:
> 
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> >
> > @author = ('Tom', 'Randal', 'Larry');
> > print "@author\n";
> > print @author;
> > print "\n";
> >
> > displays this:
> >
> > Tom Randal Larry
> > TomRandalLarry
> >
> > This surprised me that 'print "@author\n";' interpolates with spaces in
> > between elements.  Does anyone know where this is documented?
> 
> Page 43 of the Camel book.
> 
> See also the discussion of $" in the perlvar manpage.  The perlop
> manpage also describes it:
> 
>                  Interpolated scalars and arrays are internally
>                  converted to the join and . Perl operations,
>                  thus "$foo >> '@arr'"> becomes:
> 
>                    $foo . " >>> '" . (join $", @arr) . "'";
> 
> (Note the typo however.)
> 
> Kevin

-- 
- Doug

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