comment on

Jeez... Somebody hand me a fire extinguisher...

Yes, I find it more readable. No, I'm not joking. It's about as close to plain English as you can get. It appeared to me that the questioner was not very familiar with some of the interesting nuances that separate perl from C or BASIC.

When learning a language, it's often usefull to see a "here's what's happening" sort of example -- be it in pseudocode or ineffecient "straight" looping -- to show how a particular operation can happen.

I'm sorry if my example offended you; I didn't intend to ruin your day.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Removing empty string elements from an Array by Bobcat
in thread Removing empty string elements from an Array by Spliter

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


Perl-Sensitive Sunglasses
	PerlMonks