On Jan 18, amrit kumar said: >what i want to proove is...supposer that i assign an >array @a = (1,2); and then i define another array @b >which is equal to @a.I have to proove that this is >done by assigning a copy of array @a to @b rather than >by reference.
To determine if two variables point to the same data or to COPIES of the same data, see if MODIFYING one of the variables MODIFIES the other. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]