[VPM] January and February Victoria Perl Mongers meetings

[Peter Scott]

Following specific requests from members, our next two meetings will 
deal with these topics:

January 16: Array operations; Introduction to hashes

February: Installing CPAN modules

I'll be presenting, drawing materials from my classes and books.  These 
are aimed at beginners but there will be a few things thrown in there 
for not-so-beginners.  Anyone who thinks the basic stuff like, say, 
lists, is beneath them is invited to determine in advance what the 
following program will print and then see how well they did :-)

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -l
use strict;
use warnings;

my $x;

$x = (5, 6, 7);
print " 1: $x";

($x) = (5, 6, 7);
print " 2: $x";

$x = 5..7;
print " 3: $x";

($x) = 5..7;
print " 4: $x";

$x = foo();
print " 5: $x";

($x) = foo();
print " 6: $x";

$x = bar();
print " 7: $x";

($x) = bar();
print " 8: $x";

$x = () = (5, 6, 7);
print " 9: $x";

$x = () = 5..7;
print "10: $x";

sub foo {
   return (5, 6, 7);
}

sub bar {
   my @a = (5, 6, 7);
   return @a;
}
-- 
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
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