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, that eval() returns 0 (the size of the array), and thus you will
get warned for no reason.
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