in reply to Creating Excel Spreadsheet from text data file

Your code's no worse than mine (which you can read however you like : )

The only observation I have is that you need not assign null values for your declarations, i.e. you can do my $temp; when you just want to declare the variable. In fact line 6 where you have a list of variables declared and set equal to ' ' it's even a bit confusing at first glance. However TMTOWTDI rules and what your doing does no harm at all.

The only other thing is I've never seen someone put the ++ _brfore_ the variable. cool : ) I like it. I think I'll put it there from now on. It reads better, "increment this variable" as opposed to "this variable is to be incremented".

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RE: (jptxs) Re: Creating Excel Spreadsheet from text data file
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Nov 07, 2000 at 00:18 UTC
    There is a subtle difference between $a++ and ++$a when you use it in an expression (and not like he did in his code): 
    $a = 0;
print $a++;    # 0
print $a;      # 1

print ++$a;    # 2
print $a;      # 2

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