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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:50 AM, yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know much about how Perl deals with this stuff, but what
> you've done is made a copy of the pointer/reference.
> Both variables are referencing the same memory/hash.
> What you want to do is co
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:50 AM, yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know much about how Perl deals with this stuff, but what
> you've done is made a copy of the pointer/reference.
> Both variables are referencing the same memory/hash.
> What you want to do is copy the hash, not copy the
Dermot wrote:
# Make a local copy of HoH
my $ref = $fileSizes;
$fileSize is a reference to the HoH, and $ref is nothing but another
reference to the very same data structure.
You probably want to study the FAQ entry "perldoc -q copy".
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> use Storable qw;
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> my $copy = thaw(freeze($fileSize));
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I should really read the docs before I post. This code can be simplified to
use Storable qw;
my $copy = dclone($fileSize);
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Chas. Owens
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Dermot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> # Make a local copy of HoH
> my $ref = $fileSizes;
>
> # remove a hash via key c
> delete $ref->{'c'};
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The refs $ref and $fileSizes point to the same hash. What you need to
do is make a copy. There are several way
I don't know much about how Perl deals with this stuff, but what
you've done is made a copy of the pointer/reference.
Both variables are referencing the same memory/hash.
What you want to do is copy the hash, not copy the reference to it.
I /think/ this ought to work:
my %hash = %{$fileSize};
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