On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:25:18PM -0700, John W. Krahn wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
> > I've looked at this for a few days but still can't see 'why'
> >I get what I do.
> >Why do @arrays and @seconds not have the same number of elements?
<snip>
> > # this only gets the second entry from the last array of each hash
> > entry
> > my @seconds = map { @{ $HoAoA{$_} } [ 0..$#{ $HoAoA{$_} } ]->[1] }
> > keys %HoAoA ;
>
> @{ $HoAoA{$_} } [ 0..$#{ $HoAoA{$_} } ] is an array slice and
> OBJECT->[1] dereferences OBJECT as if it were an array and accesses the
> second element _however_ an array slice is not an array reference so
> this won't work. Why it returns the last element of the last array is
> beyond me. :-(
Thanks John that helps explain why I don't get what I expected.
Mike
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