Re: converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-03 Thread Rob Dixon
Rob Dixon wrote: > Tassilo Von Parseval wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:53:06AM -0400 zentara wrote: > > > > > This one is puzzling me. > > > I know it's in the faq, to not use variables for variable > > > naming, but I find it odd that I can't get a "stringified" form > > > of a variable nam

Re: converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-03 Thread Rob Dixon
Tassilo Von Parseval wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:53:06AM -0400 zentara wrote: > > > This one is puzzling me. > > I know it's in the faq, to not use variables for variable naming, > > but I find it odd that I can't get a "stringified" form of a > > variable name, maybe from the symbol table?

Re: converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-02 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 06:53 AM, zentara wrote: Say I have an array like: @somename = (1,2,3,4,5); and I want to write that array to a file, but I want the file named automatically by just dropping the @ off of the @somename. How would you go about doing it? Well, if your still inside your

RE: converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-02 Thread Bob Showalter
zentara wrote: > Hi, > This one is puzzling me. > I know it's in the faq, to not use variables for variable naming, > but I find it odd that I can't get a "stringified" form of a variable > name, maybe from the symbol table? Or from the B line of modules? > > Say I have an array like: > > @somena

Re: converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-02 Thread Tassilo von Parseval
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:53:06AM -0400 zentara wrote: > This one is puzzling me. > I know it's in the faq, to not use variables for variable naming, > but I find it odd that I can't get a "stringified" form of a variable > name, maybe from the symbol table? Or from the B line of modules? > > S

converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-02 Thread zentara
Hi, This one is puzzling me. I know it's in the faq, to not use variables for variable naming, but I find it odd that I can't get a "stringified" form of a variable name, maybe from the symbol table? Or from the B line of modules? Say I have an array like: @somename = (1,2,3,4,5); and I want to