Day 4. Working with Lists and Arrays
Days 2 and 3 dealt primarily with individual things. Today, we'll talk about groups of things, namely, lists and arrays, and the various operations you can do to manage (and mangle) them, including
What arrays and lists are, and the variables for storing them
Defining and using arrays
List and scalar context, and why context is crucial to understanding Perl
More about <STDIN> and reading input into lists
Printing lists
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