Hello, currently in learning and I'm following this tutorial: http://www.perl-begin.org/tutorials/perl-for-newbies/part1/
At the bottom of the page there is the following example:
print "Test 4:\n";
print join("\n", (("hello") x 5)), "\n\n";
print "Test 5:\n";
print join("\n", ("hello" x 5)), "\n\n";
>>
Test 4:
hello
hello
hello
hello
hello
Test 5:
hellohellohellohellohello
I do not understand what is happening here. In my mind these should behave the opposite.
I have also tried:
print ("hello" x 5);
print "\n";
print (("hello") x 5);
>>
hellohellohellohellohello
hellohellohellohellohello
So can someone please help me understand the difference in the join operations above?
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