Re: [FWP] appending to two strings

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:05:02PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
> I've got a little code snippet that is irritating me, because there's
> got to be a shorter way to do it, but I'm having a brain-block. I knew
> that the folks on FWP could help.
> 
> Is there a way to do the following two lines in one line? :
> 
> $string1 .= $append;
> $string2 .= $append;
> 
> $string1 and $string2 are different strings, of course, which just
> happen to be being appended with the same data right now.
> 

$_ .= $append for ($string1, $string2);

[Requires 5.005 or 5.004_05]

Ronald

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