hello, > At 18:39 -0700 1999.10.15, Brian McNett wrote: >>>foreach (@raw_accounts) { >>> $obj->connect_to($_); >>>} >> >>Uh-uh, this fails silently. Something similar might work, though. >> >>foreach (@raw_accounts) { >> $obj->connect_to("$_"); >>} >> >>Forcing the double-quotes seems to do the trick. > > I cannot see why that would make a difference. It doesn't make any sense. > $_ and "$_" should be the same thing, if $_ is just plain text. > > -- > Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ > %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) What if $_ is not just plain text? I seem to remember from the prior code that @raw_accounts might contain applescript objects. But the double quotes still would not make a difference, right? Confusing. Enrique Terrazas, MD <mailto:terrazas@labmed.ucsf.edu> <http://pangloss.ucsf.edu/~terrazas/> # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org