Binish A R wrote: > How can I force array context ... Sorry, you can't. You can have either list context or scalar context or void context.
perldoc -f wantarray > like > > # echo hello: world | perl -lne '$aref = split(/:/, $_); print $aref' > > but thatz giving the length of the array That is impossible as there is no array there. perldoc -q "What is the difference between a list and an array" > ... I want $aref to be a reference ... > How is that possible ?? You need to copy the list returned from split into an anonymous array and assign that to the scalar variable. # echo hello: world | perl -lne '$aref = [ split /:/ ]; print $aref' perldoc perldata perldoc perldsc perldoc perllol John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
