Hi Randy, Thanks for reply!
It is strage. When I tried the script on another machine, it works the way you described. Anything wrong about my perl or my OS (Linux 8)? Jack On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Randy W. Sims wrote: > On 1/16/2004 11:03 AM, Jack Chen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't know how to work with this data structure: > > > > my @array = ((a => 'appple'), > > (b => 'tree'), > > (c => 'chair')); > > > > when I do: > > > > print @array; > > > > I get no output. > > > > when I do: > > > > use Data::Dumper; > > print Dumper(@array); > > > > I got the contents of it. > > Despite all of the punctuation, it is nothing more than an array. The > following is equivelant: > > my @array = qw( a apple b tree c chair ); > > I find it more helpfull when using Data::Dumper to print a reference to > the variable I want to examine. I.e. > > print Dumper([EMAIL PROTECTED]); > > To me it makes the structure easier to interpret. I don't understand > though why you saw nothing for 'print @array', are you sure you ran the > code as above. I get: > > print @array; > => aappplebtreecchair > > print "@array"; > => a appple b tree c chair > > Regards, > Randy. > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
