Re^2: Print a string X times?

in the statement print +('-') x $length , "\n";

the +('-') does some magic which I don't understand, could you please explain that statement..

Vivek
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Re^3: Print a string X times? by pid (Monk) on Aug 04, 2010 at 08:27 UTC
From perlop: Symbolic Unary Operators: "Unary "+" has no effect whatsoever, even on strings. It is useful syntactically for separating a function name from a parenthesized expression that would otherwise be interpreted as the complete list of function arguments."	[reply]
Re^3: Print a string X times? by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 04, 2010 at 09:35 UTC
Try removing the + and ensure you use strictures (well, warnings anyway) and see what happens. True laziness is hard work	[reply]