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I know I now have the result but how does it do it?
$string .= /\D/ ? "'$_'," : "$_,";
If you have the time.
Thanks again
Gus
----- Original Message -----
From: Tanton Gibbs <thgibbs@deltafarms.com>
To: Angus Laycock <angus.laycock@tesco.net>; <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: Creating a string with quotes and delimiters from an Array
> Your best bet is to do this with a foreach loop
>
> my $string = '';
> my @array = qw( alf bert charlie 4 )
> foreach( @array ) {
> $string .= /\D/ ? "'$_'," : "$_,";
> }
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angus Laycock" <angus.laycock@tesco.net>
> To: <beginners@perl.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:07 PM
> Subject: Creating a string with quotes and delimiters from an Array
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an array ----> @array = qw(alf bert charlie 4)
>
> and I want a string that contains this value < 'alf','bert','charlie','4'
>
> with the single quotes and commas.
>
> I know I can do this $string = join ( ',' , @array); which gives me
> this ----> < one|two|three|four> but how do I get the single quotes around
> each word.
>
>
> Also, how can I check if one of the values is numeric so I dont put quotes
> around it? So the result is like this ---> < 'alf','bert','charlie',4 >
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Gus
>
>
>
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