yitzle wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dermot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to make hash that refers to itself like this
>>
>> my %_HASH;
>> %_HASH = (
>> typeOne => {
>> root => '/path/to/typeOne',
>> logfile => $_HASH{typeOne}->{root}.'/logone.log';
>> },
>> typeTwo => {
>> root => '/path/to/typeTwo',
>> logfile => $_HASH{typeTwo}->{root}.'/logtwo.log';
>> }
>> );
>>
>>
>> But nothing is initialised at this point so $_HASH{typeOne}->{root} is
>> an uninitialized value when creating and logfile key.
>>
>> Is there a way around this?
>
> Not the way you are doing it. This would work, though:
>
> my %_HASH;
> %_HASH = (
> typeOne => {
> root => '/path/to/typeOne',
> logfile => $_HASH{typeOne}->{root}.'/logone.log';
> },
> typeTwo => {
> root => '/path/to/typeTwo',
> logfile => $_HASH{typeTwo}->{root}.'/logtwo.log';
> }
> );
- You are a frequent enough poster to know that bottom-posting is the preferred
style on this group
- What you have posted is identical to the code that the OP said didn't work
- Your code won't even compile as it has semicolons where there should be
commas, so you cannot possibly have tested it
Rob
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