RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Dave Storrs
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Tomasi, Chuck wrote: > Good point. I should be a little more imaginative. Sometimes making up > meaningful variable and function names is the hardest part of writing code. It is indeed! > Another thing I found about the references, the order of the parameters >

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Wagner-David
ues etc. I guess the first thing is "What are you after? Then put together a hash and/or array to get what you need." Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Tomasi, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 08:54 To: Wagner-David; '[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Tomasi, Chuck
(@$aref) loop walks right over the hash ref and I get information at the end of @leftovers "main::hash". --Chuck > -Original Message- > From: Dave Storrs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:38 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > S

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Dave Storrs
This may or may not solve your problem, but Name your sub something other than 'ref'. Ref is a reserved word in Perl. (perldoc -f ref for details on what it does) Dave > > > --arg.pl--- > > > #/usr/plx/bin/perl -w > > > > > > use strict; > > > > > > sub ref > > > { >

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Tomasi, Chuck
> From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:29 AM > To: 'Tomasi, Chuck'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Populating a referenced hash > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tomasi, Chuck [mailto

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Tomasi, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:16 PM > To: 'Bob Showalter'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Populating a referenced hash > > > > Your sub looks ok, but of cou

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Tomasi, Chuck
> Your sub looks ok, but of course we can't tell if any of > the regexes are actually matching. The regexes are matching. I put a quick forech() loop to print out the keys and their values. Everything looks OK at the end of the sub. > Instead of ${$href}{'UserID'}, which is valid syntax, the >

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Tomasi, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:54 AM > To: 'Wagner-David'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Populating a referenced hash > > > My mistake on $hash{'$User

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Tomasi, Chuck
d [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:29 AM > To: 'Tomasi, Chuck'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Populating a referenced hash > > > Your print using: > print "User ID = $hash{'$UserID'}\n"; >

RE: Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Wagner-David
Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Tomasi, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 07:29 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Populating a referenced hash Perl: 5.6.0 OS: Solaris 7 Goal: Scan a text file for key words/values and populate a hash My parsing works, but t

Populating a referenced hash

2001-11-16 Thread Tomasi, Chuck
Perl: 5.6.0 OS: Solaris 7 Goal: Scan a text file for key words/values and populate a hash My parsing works, but the main() never sees the values properly. If I'm passing by reference, why isn't the hash I passed getting populated in the main namespace? Thanks --Chuck --arg.pl-