SPUG:Best One-Liners and Scripts for UNIX
Brian Hatch
spug at ifokr.org
Fri Apr 18 12:05:12 CDT 2003
> > > unshift @F, "(No zeroth field! first is #1)";
> >
> > Are you nuts? That was the whole point of using perl! Of course
> > the first field should be field #0. Anything else is unperlish.
>
> Huh???
Out of curiousity, what languages are zero based vs one based?
Perl is zero based (unless you use '$[ = 1')
Zero based:
C, C++, Perl, Python[1] ...
One based:
Fortran, awk, Perl[2]
[1] IIRC
[2] If you use '$[ = 1', but don't do that.
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