shift
Bobby Kleemann
rkleeman at neta.com
Mon Aug 14 19:12:24 CDT 2000
~sdpm~
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Vasquez, Mike wrote:
> ~sdpm~
> I'm learning perl, a little at a time, and I have come across this:
>
> my $idfile = shift
>
> What does shift represent in this context.
This is equivalent to
my $idfile = shift @ARGV;
in the normal program context, or inside a sub it is equivalent to:
my $idfile = shift @_;
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Bobby Kleemann <rkleeman at neta.com>
http://www.neta.com/~rkleeman/
~sdpm~
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