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Re: perl addition problem
From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:59:31 +0200
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:59:31 +0200
Siva wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a doubt in Perl Addition concept.
>
> print (3+4)+7;
> Answer is : 7
This is interpreted as:
print(3+4) +7;
where the arguments to print are enclosed in parenthesis, and the result
from the print function is added to 7 and discarded.
Try this for example:
$a = print(3+4)+7;
print "\n$a\n";
The output will be:
7
8
The print function returns 1, and 1+7 is 8.
Linus
Received on 2004-09-09