In a message dated 12/18/2002 12:13:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Anyway, perhaps one of you syntactical thought police could give me some > insights to the rational. I find it very confusing that the $ and @ > characters > are supposed to be used interchangeably to denote arrays, particularyly > when I'm > trying to fathom the relation to other issues such as scalar or list > context. > As I recall, hashes arso use % and @ interchangeably. This about it like this: The "$" refers to a single piece of information. The "@" refers to a list. The "%" refers to an unordered list. So, if you want to referrer to a specific part of an array, or hash, you have to use a $, or scalar. So if your array is @array = qw(something something2 something3) Then $array[0] is a scalar value of the first element of the ordered list, "something".
