What's the difference between using the Clone module and simply assigning $ref1 = $ref2?
Thanks. Teddy ----- Original Message ----- From: "zentara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: Re: Copying a hash-of-hashes On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:58:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Rabbitson) wrote: >The question is whether there is an elegant way to produce a complete copy >of a hash-of-hashes-of-hashes-...-of-hashes for internal subroutine purposes >and make sure that all references will be translated properly as well, >leaving the subroutine no ability to modify the main hash. #!/usr/bin/perl use Clone qw(clone); my $newhash = clone($hashref); see "perldoc Clone" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
