[ale] Perl monks ?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:11, Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> 1. Is the following snippet a valid piece of Perl code? 
> s/[Tt]he\s/a/gis; 

Only if it has a $variable ~= in front (unless in commandline mode).
Then it will substitute "a" for "The " or "the "

> 2. Will the following code open a file named "thefile" for output? 
> open OUT, "thefile"; 

No. Default open mode is read only.

> 3. For the following snippet of code, is array2 created as a reference to
> array1? 
> @array1 = @array2; 

No. array1 is now a copy of array2. Assignment is from right to left.

> 4. Does the following snippet of code define a valid hash? 
> %myhash = ("1", "Steve", 
> "2", "Bob", 
> "A", "Frank");  

Yes.
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