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In HTML you use the <ol> tag.

The HTML: 

    <html><head><title>Ordered Lists</title></head>
    <body>
    Bedrock
    <ol>
        <li>Fred
        <li>Barney
        <li>Wilma
        <li>Betty
        <li>Pebbles
        <li>Bamm Bamm
    </ol>
    </body></html>

will look like:

Bedrock

  1. Fred
  2. Barney
  3. Wilma
  4. Betty
  5. Pebbles
  6. Bamm Bamm
In perl, the name of an array starts with a ``@'' and, like a scalar, continues with alphanumerics or underscores not begining with a number. 

    @bedrock = ("Fred", "Barney", "Wilma", "Betty", 
            "Pebbles", "Bamm Bamm") ;

To retrieve an item of the list ( In perl the numbers of array items begin with 0 ): 

    print "$bedrock[0]\n" ;

will print: 

    Fred

and 

    print "bedrock[3]\n" ;

will print: 

    Betty


Tom Hunt 2002-06-09