Hi All,

The piece of code below doesnot print the string backwards

while(<STDIN>)
{
print "Backwards is ",reverse($_),"\n";
}

unlike this one which works

while(<STDIN>)
{
my $reverse = reverse $_;
print "Backwards is $reverse \n";
}

Why is that ,please advice?

See http://p3rl.org/reverse . First example has list context, so it reverses list which contains only one element. Second example forces scalar context.