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Recent content by fieldee
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Scalar = Variable?
Hi, Urrk. Don't know what I was thinking earlier...of course this my $entireFile = (<FILEHANDLE>); won't give the entire file....I'm tired & overworked at the moment though! I'd usually do my $entireFile = join ('',(<FILEHANDLE>)); Ta ta Steve :) -
Scalar = Variable?
Hi, "...I still don't understand how saying if(@mydata) evaluates the array as a scalar? " Me neither! It's part of the Perl language that it will try to do what you expect. It just comes with time & practice. I'm sure if I was a better scripter I'd learn exactly how this all... -
Scalar = Variable?
Hi Martin, Not sure how well I'm able to explain this (hopefully one of the gurus here will do a better job) - basically Perl evaluates operations in either a scalar or list context. In the case of the array test you give, Perl is evaluating the array in a scalar context, which returns the... -
Scalar = Variable?
Hi, A scalar is any 'singular' variable, ie. $scalar = "bob"; $scalarReferenceToa = \$a; $scalarAnonymousArrayReference = ['a','b','c']; If it starts with a '$', it's a scalar. A 'plural' variable is of course an array or hash. ie. @array = ('a','b','c'); %hash =... -
Delayed Cookie Updates
Hi, Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but it seems you're not actually sending the cookie to the client, so of course the value of $ENV{HTTP_COOKIE} won't change. You need to create header, including the "Set-Cookie: mycookie=mycookieval" line, and send it to the client. The client...
