The Perl programs you have seen so far deal with scalar values, which are single units of data, and scalar variables, which can store one piece of information. Perl also enables you to define an ...

I have been trained to regard an array in the ALGOL 60 sense as a finite set of elementary, consecutively numbered variables, whose “identifiers” could be “computed”. But for two reasons this view ...

MISC contains eight elements, the variables MISC1 through MISC8. To reference the data in these variables, use the form MISC{n}, where n is the element number in the array. For example, MISC{6} is the ...