Re: what is perl 's syntax or grammer?(toward e-commerce)

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 01:02:10PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> > foreach my $name (param()) {
> >    my @value = param($name);
> 
> Are you sure you don't mean $value here?

Not necessarily.  param() returns the first value associated with the
name whan called in scalar context or a list of all values associated
with the name in list context.

> >    print "<p>The field with the NAME attriabute equal to <b>
> >    $name</b> had a VALUE equal to <b>@value</b></p>\n";
> 
> ...and here?  I'd probably change this loop to something like
> 
>   foreach my $name (@param) {
>     print "$name: " . param($name) . "\n";
>   }

foreach my $name (@param) {
  print "$name: " . join ', ', param($name) . "\n";
}

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