Is PERL case sensitive?

Marc Day

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Jun 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/4/98

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I am writing a PERL script that parses information. I have a problem
in the fact that it will not write the information to the email. I
think my problem may be that I am using a command that uses $FORM in
one part of the script and $Form in another part. Does this matter? Is
this the answer to my three week nightmare????

Thanx in advance

Marc
mn...@keele.ac.uk

Bob Trieger

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Jun 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/4/98

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mn...@keele.ac.uk (Marc Day) wrote:
-> I am writing a PERL script that parses information. I have a problem
-> in the fact that it will not write the information to the email. I
-> think my problem may be that I am using a command that uses $FORM in
-> one part of the script and $Form in another part. Does this matter? Is
-> this the answer to my three week nightmare????

If I just posted the word "yes", it may seem inadequate. So why don't you fix
your script so all of you $F(orm|ORM)s are the same and find out for yourself?

HTH

Bob Trieger
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Tom Phoenix

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Jun 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/4/98

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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Marc Day wrote:

> I think my problem may be that I am using a command that uses $FORM in

> one part of the script and $Form in another part. Does this matter?

Running this program will tell you. :-)

$answer = "It matters.\n";
$ANSWER = "It doesn't matter.\n";
print $answer;

Hope this helps!

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Tom Christiansen

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Jun 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/4/98

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In comp.lang.perl.misc, mn...@keele.ac.uk (Marc Day) writes:
:I am writing a PERL script that parses information. I have a problem
:in the fact that it will not write the information to the email. I

:think my problem may be that I am using a command that uses $FORM in

:one part of the script and $Form in another part. Does this matter? Is
:this the answer to my three week nightmare????

% man perldata
..
Case IS significant--"FOO", "Foo", and "foo" are all different names.
Names that start with a letter or underscore may also contain digits
and underscores.

If I had a nickel for each question people ask that they could have read
the man pages to find, I'd be as rich as $Bill.

I suggest you stop Perl programming now and take some time out
to read the perl manpages.

Don't not pass Go.
Do not collect "200 OK" server responses.

These are the essential ones that you should read before continuing:

perl Perl overview
perlfaq Perl frequently asked questions
perldata Perl data structures
perlsyn Perl syntax
perlop Perl operators and precedence
perlre Perl regular expressions
perlrun Perl execution and options
perlfunc Perl builtin functions
perlvar Perl predefined variables
perlsub Perl subroutines

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Tom Christiansen

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In comp.lang.perl.misc,
sowm...@juicepigs.com (Bob Trieger) writes:
:If I just posted the word "yes", it may seem inadequate. So why don't you fix

:your script so all of you $F(orm|ORM)s are the same and find out for yourself?

Isn't it weird how people will post something to the net rather than
implementing the most trivial of tests on their own?

--tom
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Ronald J Kimball

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No, but perl is.

;-)

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