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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:22:33 +0530 (IST)
From: Sudarshan Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meidling, Keith, CTR, OSD-C3I" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: join hashes?
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Meidling, Keith, CTR, OSD-C3I wrote:
> I've been working with perl for a while now, and I still have not been able
> to grasp the concept of references. I've got Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens
> published by Wrox, I have the Camel, and the cookbook. After reading the
> information, and trying to ask people as well I still cannot understand what
> references are, and why the are used. To me they seem more trouble than they
> are worth... I know that with some modules, I have to use an array
> reference, and some spit out a reference to a hash... References to hashes
> just totally blow my mind... Usually the program will yell at me that I have
> to use an array reference and I know to put a '\' in front of the '@'.
>
> If someone can help me out, or point me to a good explanation on the web for
> references I would greatly appreciate it...
Read through these docs
perldoc perlreftut
perldoc perllol
perldoc perldsc
perldoc perlref
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