On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 14:26 -0400, Matthew J. Avitable wrote:
> Pierre,
> >> Thank you, but I got it to work the way I wanted, thanks to Matthew and
> >> Rob's posts:
> >>
> >> map { modify_variable(${$_}) } = \($var1, $var2, $var3);
> >>
>
> To annotate to what Paul said - the above won't wo
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:45 -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Pierre Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:03 -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> > > On 4/27/07, Pierre Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > snip
> > >
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:03 -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Pierre Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> snip
> > > - modify_variable() doesn't appear to modify anything, otherwise why
> > > are you assigning its return value to the scalar passed as a par
Matthew and Rob, thank you for your replies.
> - It's unclear whether you have a fixed set of variables to process.
> Is
> the list always the same?
Yes, the list is always the same.
> - Why are you using references? Are you sure you need to?
>
> - modify_variable() doesn't appear to modify
> # $var1, $var2 and $var3 are set previously
>
> > for ( \$var1,
> >\$var2,
> >\$var3,
> >)
> >
> > {
> >${$_} = modify_variable ( ${$_} );
> > }
> >
> > Questions:
> > - How do I improve my array definition?
> > - How to I call the modify_
Hello everyone,
I have a 'modify_variable' function that, well, modifies a variable.
I want to run it on several variables.
I have the following code that:
- builds an array of references on the variables,
- calls the function on the content of the reference,
- set the content of the reference t