> perldoc -q "What is the difference between a list and an array"
As a side note to the POD above - although lists can not change sizes
they are addressable just like arrays. In other words the following two
statements are equivalent:
my @slice = @{ [ (split /\|/, 'a|b|c|d|e') ] }[1,3];
my @s
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 $aref'
>
> but thatz giving the length of the array
Tha
Try this:
echo hello: world | perl -lne '$aref = [ split(/:/, $_) ]; print $aref'
[] synthax gives a ref to the array returned by split()
HTH,
José.
-Message d'origine-
De : Binish A R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envoyé : samedi 20 août 2005 17:15
À : Perl Beginners
Objet : Forcing array
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 08:44:34PM +0530, Binish A R wrote:
> How can I force array context ...
> like
>
> # echo hello: world | perl -lne '$aref = split(/:/, $_); print $aref'
>
> but thatz giving the length of the array ... I want $aref to be a reference
> ...
> How is that possible ??
Very
