From marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com Tue Sep 4 19:18:55 2001 From: marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com (Marc Weinmann) Date: Tue Aug 3 23:56:24 2004 Subject: bloomington/normal perl group Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative From marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com Tue Sep 11 19:03:12 2001 From: marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com (Marc Weinmann) Date: Tue Aug 3 23:56:24 2004 Subject: bloomington/normal perl group Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative From unixdown at unixdown.com Thu Sep 13 09:53:02 2001 From: unixdown at unixdown.com (unixdown) Date: Tue Aug 3 23:56:24 2004 Subject: Links to some of the sites we talked about last night. Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010913095255.00a901c0@unixdown.com> Some links to sites that pertain to last night's discussions. I, Cringely http://www.pbs.org/cringely/index.html Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html TiVo http://www.tivo.com/order MP3 machine that streams across network: http://www.slimdevices.com/ The Perl Journal http://www.tpj.com X-10 http://www.x10.com/products Everything http://www.everything2.com PerlMonks http://www.perlmonks.org I think that's most of them. zach --- Bloomington-Normal Perl Mongers User's Group -Send List commands to: majordomo@hfb.pm.org -Send List posts to: bloomington-normal-pm@hfb.pm.org From marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com Fri Sep 14 09:11:04 2001 From: marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com (Marc Weinmann) Date: Tue Aug 3 23:56:24 2004 Subject: Links to some of the sites we talked about last night. Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative From marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com Thu Sep 20 14:55:40 2001 From: marc.weinmann.lwed at statefarm.com (Marc Weinmann) Date: Tue Aug 3 23:56:24 2004 Subject: neat code snippet Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative From unixdown at unixdown.com Thu Sep 20 15:42:46 2001 From: unixdown at unixdown.com (unixdown) Date: Tue Aug 3 23:56:24 2004 Subject: neat code snippet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010920153551.00a940f0@unixdown.com> That is rather nifty. I'm used to using $#foo for the element count. Now I rather curious to see what the processing differences are between: scalar(@array) $feh = @foo = `dir`; and $#array Well, suppose I should go to the monastery. At 02:55 PM 9/20/01 -0500, you wrote: >Ran across something like this(here's a cleaner example), and I had to >devote a few minutes of admiration to it. I had always used >scalar(@array) to get the count of elements in an array, but never >considered combining multiple assignments of different contexts into one line > > $feh = @foo = `dir`; > > print "There are $feh lines of output, and here they are:\n", @foo; -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/archives/bloomington-normal-pm/attachments/20010920/3e7fe2d8/attachment.htm