Re: NEw to Perl

From: Tad McClellan (tadmc_at_augustmail.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:52:05 -0500

Shawn Melnic <sham_x30@yahoo.com> wrote:

> while(&list) {
> @line = ..
> bla bla
> bla
> }
>
> sub list {

     my @list;
     push @list, "line 1";
     push @list, "line 2" ;
     push @list, "line 3" ;
     return @list;

> }
>
> Basically, I want while to read the sub list into an array..

Can't be done.

But you can have the sub return a list, as above. 

-- 
    Tad McClellan                          SGML consulting
    tadmc@augustmail.com                   Perl programming
    Fort Worth, Texas

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