Re: Simple array question

2002-05-31 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:17 AM 5/31/02 -0400, Barry Jones wrote: >What type of functions are built in to perl for arrays? > >Mainly, I'm looking to find out how to see how many elements are in an >array without counting them, but I was wondering about others too. > >What about hashes? perldoc perlfunc lists them un

RE: Simple array question

2002-05-31 Thread Shishir K. Singh
oops $#array is the index index of the last element -Original Message- From: Shishir K. Singh Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:23 AM To: Barry Jones; Beginners @ Perl (E-mail) Subject: RE: Simple array question No of elements in an array is given by $#ARRAY_NAME eg the number of

RE: Simple array question

2002-05-31 Thread Shishir K. Singh
No of elements in an array is given by $#ARRAY_NAME eg the number of element in an array @array is $#array -Original Message- From: Barry Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:17 AM To: Beginners @ Perl (E-mail) Subject: Simple array question What type of

Re: Simple array question

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On May 31, Barry Jones said: >What type of functions are built in to perl for arrays? > >Mainly, I'm looking to find out how to see how many elements are in an >array without counting them, but I was wondering about others too. Arrays have push(), pop(), shift(), unshift(), and splice(). To get

RE: simple array question

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:17:03 +0100, Barry Jones wrote: > Yes but you have to write it like this: > > (@main) = (@data1,@data2,@data3); No you don't. @main = (@data1,@data2,@data3); works just fine. Dave... -- Shoot some of those missiles, think of us as fatherless scum It won't be for

Re: simple array question

2002-05-21 Thread aman cgiperl
Here's how you can do it (this is just one way): #!/usr/bin/perl @x = ('a','b'); @y = ('c','d'); @z = ('e','f'); @xyz = (@x,@y,@z); print @xyz; Output is : abcdef Got it!!! Aman - Original Message - From: "A Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21,

RE: simple array question

2002-05-21 Thread Barry Jones
Yes but you have to write it like this: (@main) = (@data1,@data2,@data3); -Original Message- From: A Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: simple array question Hi all, I have a very simple and probably stupid question to

RE: simple array question

2002-05-21 Thread Hanson, Robert
Sure. @main = (@data1, @data2, @data3); Rob -Original Message- From: A Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: simple array question Hi all, I have a very simple and probably stupid question to ask. If I have a set of array