Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Roderick" == Roderick A Anderson <[email protected]> writes: > > Roderick> my ($f1, $f2, $f3, $f4, $f5, $f6, $f7, $f8, $f9, $f10, $f11) = > Roderick> split('\|', $_); > > "My eyes... the goggles do nothing!" > > Seriously, whenever you start having variable names or column names or > anything names that end in "1", "2", "3", you're doing it wrong.
You are right on there. I didn't say in my post it was partially a joke. Many years ago I was asked to add some minor functionality to a Fortran program written by a Civil Engineer. There was no documentation and the variables were exactly like this. F1-F18. That made it interesting as they were used to to do some complex calculations and I, not being a civil engineer, didn't know what was being used for where. Also I was caught up in the 11 fields thought. Not a Perl hacker, just pragmatic. :-) > An array would have worked far better there. Got a few of them hanging around where the script wasn't slapped together. > \\||/ Rod -- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
