On 4/13/07, yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> @record{qw(firstName lastName field3 field4)} = split /\t/;
This line sorta confuses me.
Now record is treated as an array? An array element which is a hash?
On the next line, you push it as a hash onto @data. This makes an array of
hashes?
sn
BANG!
There's no need to assign names to array indices when you have Perl's hash
structure. Suppose your data is tab-separated, you could write:
my @data;
while (<>) {
my %record;
@record{qw(firstName lastName field3 field4)} = split /\t/;
push @data, \%record;
}
or something similar. No
yitzle wrote:
Rob Dixon wrote:
yitzle wrote:
Don't shoot me!
I can't find enum on the perldocs. Perl does have an enum, right?
How do I go about making an enum? I basically want a bunch of
variables to equal subsequent values, eg 0, 1, 2, ...
Perl doesn't provide enum natively. But it's a
The "problem" is thus.
I an reading in data and using split to get it to an array.
Each element/column has a specific meaning, eg firstName, lastName etc
Rather than using [0], [1] I figured I could set up an enum($firstName,
$lastName, etc)
I suppose the alternative is to define (constant or vari
yitzle wrote:
Don't shoot me!
I can't find enum on the perldocs. Perl does have an enum, right?
How do I go about making an enum? I basically want a bunch of variables to
equal subsequent values, eg 0, 1, 2, ...
Perl doesn't provide enum natively. But it's a solution to a problem, so perhaps
y
Are you looking for C style enumerated types?
AFAIK,Perl doesn't have this built-in type.But you could get it on CPAN:
http://search.cpan.org/~zenin/enum-1.016/enum.pm
2007/4/13, yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Don't shoot me!
I can't find enum on the perldocs. Perl does have an enum, right?
How d
