I don't know...maybe I didn't get enough sleep last night. the "ne" vs "eq" worked.

The use of my "s is habit from shell scripting. Am I really to believe that Perl will not get things confused if I don't use "s for somethings? If so, great!! If not, what should I watch out for? When should I absolutely use "s in my scripts (besides the obvious prints, etc)? As I recall, I tried calling a function that I had written and I tried passing a value to the function without using quotes. When I tried to compile it Perl screamed at me because the value was not quoted. Once I quoted it all was well.

Sorry to have caused a burden guys. This really was, after looking at your responses, a dumb question. Thanks for the help.

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- Jim

In reply to Re: Oh ye who are in the gall or perlness...what maketh me mistaketh :) by snafu
in thread Oh ye who are in the gall of perlness...what maketh me mistaketh :) by snafu

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