Thanx
I am not a great master of perl , but have been getting my job done
with perl for the past 2 years. Can u educate me why I cant do 'symbolic
references' in eval('@' .$1 .' = () ')
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 03:31, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Aug 27, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan said:
>
> >> if ($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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> ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
> <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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