use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($ref);
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Musson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help please - still not understanding references I think...
Hey bseel,
My MUA believes you used
to write the following on Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 9:38:08 AM.
>>> I was thinking (and the documents say) these are references, but I
>>> have had a hard time getting my head around references...
>>>
>>> I have tried adding this
>>> print @$valref{cn};
>>> but all it prints is
>>> ARRAY(0x25d9ec4)
>>> and I want it to print the value of "cn" which is
>>> Musson, Timothy L
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
bmc> The reason that when you add print @$valref{cn}; that you get
bmc> ARRAY(0x25d9ec4) is because it is printing the actual reference to
bmc> the data, not the data. So that means that ARRAY(0x25d9ec4) is the
bmc> actual memory location of the data that you are referencing. If you
bmc> copy that reference, you will copy the address so that you are
bmc> still looking at the same data.
bmc> It is similar to pointers in C. The reference "points" to the data
bmc> in memory, whereas the variable isn't actually holding the data.
bmc> Does that make sense?
Thanks,
Yes it does make sense, but it just leaves one question...
How do I print the data? :-)
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