Thank you for the code snippet, and the advice.

I basically just started learning Perl, and I have found that I am of two minds on the use of strict; as a beginner. I now have a script that works, and will get me a good grade - for the beginner's assignment at hand. When I turn on strict; I get several lines of admonishment...yes, very important admomishment, I know...but I also have no output to see if I am even headed in the right direction, and strict; tells me a bunch of new stuff I don't understand on top of it all. I am barely at the point of remembering which part of a hash is the key and which is the value, and I'm just now barely figuring out how $hash{$_}++ does what it does :-D

What I have taken to doing is putting in strict; and then commenting it out until I want to hear from it. As I learn more I know I will want to hear from it all the time, but for now I'm happy that a simple foreach loop even works as written.

Thanks again!

In reply to Re: Re: Tutelage, part two by ctp
in thread Tutelage, part two by ctp

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