Jump to content

Perl Programming/Keywords/join

Add links
From Wikibooks, open books for an open world
Previous: ioctl Keywords Next: keys

The join keyword

[edit | edit source]

join joins the elements of LIST with the separators from EXPRESSION. The new string is returned.

Syntax

[edit | edit source]
 join EXPRESSION, LIST

Examples

[edit | edit source]
The print 
 $login = "anton";  $passwd = "j4\/D\\S";  $uid = 1721169842;  $gid = 8421691721;  $gcos = "nothing";  $home = "\\";  $shell = "ksh";  $rec = join(':', $login, $passwd, $uid, $gid, $gcos, $home, $shell);  print $rec
returns the colon-separated string elements of the list:
anton:j4/D\S:1721169842:8421691721:nothing:\:ksh

See also

[edit | edit source]
Previous: ioctl Keywords Next: keys
Retrieved from "https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Perl_Programming/Keywords/join&oldid=3678231"