> -Original Message-
> From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: generating arrays on the fly
>
>
> Thanx
> I
Hi ,
The name of the global var is put into symtab during compilation while that of local
var is converted to its offset. So if u want to "NAME" a var at run-time, u won't
succeed. All u can do is that use hash-table with the KEYNAMES as those words
appearing in the file.
Read about the th
On 28 Aug 2002, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
> Thanx
> I am not a great master of perl , but have been getting my job done
> with perl for the past 2 years. Can u educate me why I cant do 'symbolic
> references' in eval('@' .$1 .' = () ')
This does not just apply for eval, symbolic reference
Thanx
I am not a great master of perl , but have been getting my job done
with perl for the past 2 years. Can u educate me why I cant do 'symbolic
references' in eval('@' .$1 .' = () ')
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 03:31, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Aug 27, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan said:
>
> >> i
On Aug 27, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan said:
>> if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
>> @$1=(); #this is the line I want to acheive my aim with!
>> }
>
> if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
> eval('@' .$1 .' = () ') || warn $@
> }
First, don't do that. You're doing symbolic references in effect.
Second
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: generating arrays on the fly
>
>
> hi,
>
> what I'm wanting to do is generate an array named after a
> string that is
> found in a text
perhaps a hash of arrays is what you want:
if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
$HASH{$1} = [];
}
and you reference the array like
push @{ $HASH{'text'} }, "someinfo";
or anyother array functions.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, A
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi,
>
> what I'm wanting to do is generate an array named after a string that is
> found in a text file.
>
> i.e something like this:
> if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
> @$1=(); #this is the line I want to acheive my aim with!
> }
>
> I know the syntax is wrong, but
