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From the keyboard of peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva):
:In article <3439.27ca4e40@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes:
:> when what I want is
:>         (q, r) = dividend divided by divisor
:
:Than you need a different programming language. 

Pretty easy in perl: functions can return scalars or lists.  It's
quite common to say:

    ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
       $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
           = stat($filename);

Which is nice -- I like the named variables.  Others just stick it in 
one array, convenient if you're doing stats on various files:

    @statb = stat($filename);

For your division and remainder problem, you could just define a trivial
subroutine as follows:

    sub divrem { ($_[0] / $_[1], $_[0] % $_[1]); } 

and then say stuff like:

    ($q, $r) = &divrem(7,2);


--tom