Re: Solution to Quick easy question

[Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:01:20PM -0700, James wrote:
> 
> > real printf code:
> > 
> > printf ("%-15s          %-15s          %-30s\n",
> > $DCS_DB{"$i"}, $DB{"$i"}_NM, $DB{"$i"}_DIR);
> > 
> 
> Thanks Doug, your email put me in the right direction.
>  Here is the *new* and improved printf:
> 
> printf ("%-15s          %-15s          %-30s\n",
> ${"DCS\_DB$i"}, ${"DB$i\_NM"}, ${"DB$i\_DIR"});
> 
> Now it works.  I am still a little confused on when to
> use double quotes, single quotes and the curley
> braces.  

Someone has to say it, so I'll let it be Mr. Dominus:

Why it's stupid to `use a variable as a variable name'
http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html

hdp.
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