Re: Comma question

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, B i g D o g wrote: > I figured that the comma was to concatenate but is was wondering if the > parser handled it different. The comma isn't actually for concatenation. The net effect is the same in this case, but a very different thing is happening. echo "hello " , "there"; Here 'echo' is printing two separate arguments. First it is printing "hello " and then it is printing "there". echo "hello " . "there"; Here the strings are concatenated to form a single string ("hello there") and then this is processed by echo which prints it out. The effects are the same, as I said, but it's important to realize why they're very different ways of getting that effect. miguel