OK, now that I have been called stupid (by reference), I would have rather have been called unacknowledged.
I didn't call my son stupid when he spoke his few first words, had I done so, he probably never would have aspired to become a Dr. of Pharmacy.
I have been using perl for 30 days, and came here seeking knowledge and to improve my perl skills and techniques. I wrote my first line of code in 1968 on a Honeywell H100 'Mainframe' where the machine had to bootstrapped by punching a series (literally on buttons, using 3 fingers) of Octal numbers into the memory (core), then pointing the instruction registers, data registers, etc to their proper addresses and pressing go.
I wrote forth for control of absorption and plasma spectrometers where we refrained from using a single variable (using the stack instead).
Each time I must have been stupid when first starting out, especially with forth
Ok, I get the point, and found the articles both helpful and applicable, will study them closely and, I am sure, make changes to my code and eliminate the variables.
Just give me a bit of credit that I am even delving into hashes references etc. after just 30 days. I will get better, and be writing code that might be showing the masters something new soon.
Also how about a bit of credit for being 65 years old and still writing code!
Largins

In reply to Re^2: Concatenation of scaler reference by Largins
in thread Concatenation of scaler reference by Largins

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