hai Alan Thank you for the reply but this is not what i asked for,, array should be created with the number like this @5 or some thing like @y5 where 5 is the $value if i give some thing like this @y$value it is giving me an error.
Chaitanya On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Alan Haggai Alavi < alanhag...@alanhaggai.org> wrote: > On 30 June 2010 10:31, Chaitanya Yanamadala <dr.virus.in...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hai > > i am in a situation like i have a scalar $value = 5 > > now i need to create an array with the number i mean $value > > how can i do it?? > > > > regards > > Chaitanya > > > > > Hi Chaitanya, > > I am not sure if I understood your question well or not. > > To create an array with the value, either push or unshift the value > into an existing array, or assign the value as an array item. > > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > use warnings; > use strict; > > my $value = 5; > my @values; > > # different cases: > # push @values, $value; > # unshift @values, $value; > # @values = ($value); > > __END__ > > Please refer `perldoc -f push` and `perldoc -f unshift`. > > Regards, > Alan Haggai Alavi. > -- > The difference makes the difference >