i'm not sure i can /see/ what "next;" is doing 
for ( 1 .. 3 )
{
  print "The father\n";
  print "The son\n";
  next;
  print "But no holy ghost\n";
}

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Do you see it now? You do really need to understand the core concepts, like loops, if's and most importantly true/false. If you don't: this happens. I'm all for learning by example - this is the natural way our brain works - but you need examples of one core concept at a time.


holli

You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.

In reply to Re^3: help with user selected hash operations? by holli
in thread help with user selected hash operations? by lunette

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