Because unquoted strings *are* legal, when you're not using 'use strict'. And not using 'use strict' is a *very* bad idea. A better way to write that particular statement would be: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

{
   my $mn = 3; 

   my $month = (qw(January Feburary March April May June July August S
+eptember October November December))[$mn];

   print $month, "\n";
}

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But as how you should best to do your language conversion is very dependant on how you manage it in the rest of your program. Could you give an example of how you're doing it now? Are you doing global search and replaces, resource files, or a runtime variable that sets the langauge?

--Chris

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In reply to (jcwren) Re: Month Names by jcwren
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