Strings and Operators

[JamesW]

Sorry if this occurs twice, my nicely typed one just vanished. Anyway in brief:

I want to store a range in a string, e.g. '2-5'.

I tried $range = $numOne.'-'.$numTwo+1;

And $range stored the sum of $numOne+1!
I got it to work with,

$range = $numOne.'-'.($numTwo+1);

I understand why this works not not why my initial instinct didn't.
Could someone please enlighten me?

Thanks
James

[dna]

this problem relates to operator/list precedence with and without
parenthesis.

for a good reference please read through 'perlop' in the perldocs. you will
be enlightened!

good luck

"JamesW" <gi*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Sorry if this occurs twice, my nicely typed one just vanished. Anyway in brief:
I want to store a range in a string, e.g. '2-5'.

I tried $range = $numOne.'-'.$numTwo+1;

And $range stored the sum of $numOne+1!
I got it to work with,

$range = $numOne.'-'.($numTwo+1);

I understand why this works not not why my initial instinct didn't.
Could someone please enlighten me?

Thanks
James

[dna]

another thing, i would bet that specifying the -w option would have thrown
an error/warning when you tried to run that code... make sure you try to
always do:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict; ## mandatory as well! :)

[code]

"dna" <magmalianathotmaildotcom> wrote in message
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this problem relates to operator/list precedence with and without
parenthesis.

for a good reference please read through 'perlop' in the perldocs. you will be enlightened!

good luck

"JamesW" <gi*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:27*************************@posting.google.co m...

Sorry if this occurs twice, my nicely typed one just vanished. Anyway

in brief:

I want to store a range in a string, e.g. '2-5'.

I tried $range = $numOne.'-'.$numTwo+1;

And $range stored the sum of $numOne+1!
I got it to work with,

$range = $numOne.'-'.($numTwo+1);

I understand why this works not not why my initial instinct didn't.
Could someone please enlighten me?

Thanks
James