RE: Simulating VB Enum

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Muey
Not a vb person myself but would a hash do that then: my %enum = ( ASSET => 1, LIABILITY => 2, EQUITY => 3, REVENUE => 4, EXPENSE => 5, DIVIDEND => 6, CONTRA_ASSET => 11, ); Or is Vb's enum like mysql's enum? I ask since you where doing a select and I don't know if that is a

Re: Simulating VB Enum

2003-08-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Dan Muey wrote: > In addtion to Rob's very sound advice it sound like you simply need an array: > > my @enum = qw(dhbold dhcaption dhend dhform); > > print $enum[0]; # prints dhbold > print $enum[2]; # prints dbhend > > HTH > > DMuey Sorry Dan, I dn't think so. That usage actually goes in the w

RE: Simulating VB Enum

2003-08-27 Thread Dan Muey
t: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:36 PM > To: Beginners Mailing List Perl (E-mail) > Subject: Simulating VB Enum > > > Visual Basic has a construct called Enum which looks like so: > > Enum namea > dhbold > dhcaption > dhend > dhform >

Re: Simulating VB Enum

2003-08-27 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:35 PM, Harter, Douglas wrote: Visual Basic has a construct called Enum which looks like so: Enum namea dhbold dhcaption dhend dhform . end enum What it essentially does is assign an incrementing numeric value to each varia

RE: Simulating VB Enum

2003-08-27 Thread Hanson, Rob
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:36 PM To: Beginners Mailing List Perl (E-mail) Subject: Simulating VB Enum Visual Basic has a construct called Enum which looks like so: Enum namea dhbold dhcaption dhend dhform . end enum What it essen

Simulating VB Enum

2003-08-27 Thread Harter, Douglas
Visual Basic has a construct called Enum which looks like so: Enum namea dhbold dhcaption dhend dhform . end enum What it essentially does is assign an incrementing numeric value to each variable in the enum, so that dhbold = 1 dhcaption = 2 dhend = 3 dh form