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Re^2: Tutoring for beginner?
by Halbird (Novice) on Mar 06, 2015 at 20:07 UTC
    Thank you! I'm a bit apprehensive to post my code (what I have so far) publically - it's very simple compared to everything else I've seen on this site. Do complete newbies come here often? Perhaps I'm in the wrong place!
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      Do complete newbies come here often? Perhaps I'm in the wrong place!

      They sure do! Complete newbie or seasoned veteran, as long as you're interested in learning Perl, you're in exactly the right place. Don't be shy, just post away -- and keep in mind that everybody here started from zero. Even the most exalted monks were not born with their wisdom.

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        and keep in mind that everybody here started from zero

        Speak for yourself, peasant! I was created, fully-JAPHed, sprung forth directly from Larry’s forehead. Hubris doesn’t grow on trees you know!

        Too much? Hmmm. Well, this is strong coffee. Hate the roaster not the drinker.

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        That's very encouraging! Thanks a lot, I'll try to feel less embarrased about posting my code, haha. Something I'm stuggling with is loading data from a file into a list. I tried doing it like this: 
        open(FILEA, "<", "Population.txt") or die("Cannot open: $!\n");

    my @Data;
    @Data = <FILEA>;

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        I think that's ok? So the list should be working with the text in the file? I'm trying to split each line in the list into two components... Would that be something like: 
        $Data[0] = "$PopA";
    $Data[1] = "$PopB";

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        As I said, I'm a complete beginner so any hints would be greatly appreciated!
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      Don't worry! We get to see all sorts of code here and programmers at all levels. As long as you are willing to put in the effort to learn it does not matter at all what your code looks like!

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      "do complete noobies come here often?"
      YES!! i am here.
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        That makes me feel much better! I've been skimming over some posts in the forum and I've found it very encouraging... Hopefully we won't be noobies for much longer :)
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