here is the sample output.
barcode=E01124 barcode=E01178 barcode=E01195 barcode=E01225 barcode=E01232 maybe I am not understanding when a multidimensional array would be useful? when are these references useful? Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams James Edward Gray II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/25/2004 02:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Perl Beginners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: array population from system app call On May 25, 2004, at 1:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ok so now I can get all elements printed using > > my @ftapes = ( ); > my @ftapes = `evmvol -w label_state=3|grep barcode`; > > foreach $_ (@ftapes) { > print $_ , "\n"; > } > > so now I want to use multidimensional arrays using print $ftapes[0,1] > does print $ftapes [0,1] mean print element 0 and element 1 or address > 0,1 > am I confusing a normal array with a MDarray? Perl arrays are not multidimensional. Using references though, we can get there. Backticks return LINES, not fields. If we want to break them down, we'll need to do that. Can you show a sample output of `evmvol -w label_state`? James