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commit b8db74f2e886c63d3cd1c65e2fde6d09c0b3e436
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Fri Jun 10 09:48:06 2011 -0700
perldata: Link directly to $;
M pod/perldata.pod
commit 74314d7a4759b44bca39aa59bf8621e39f9dd165
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Fri Jun 10 09:46:37 2011 -0700
Add another address for Ian Goodacre
M Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
commit 9ed2a148ec1ba95f38023eeb18a003bc20d0b45b
Author: Ian Goodacre <i...@debian.lan>
Date: Fri Jun 10 21:47:38 2011 +1200
Document multi-dimensional array emulation.
M pod/perldata.pod
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Summary of changes:
Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl | 1 +
pod/perldata.pod | 14 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl b/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
index ae094a7..856a9f5 100755
--- a/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
+++ b/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
@@ -599,6 +599,7 @@ hansmu\100xs4all.nl hansm\100icgroup.nl
hio\100ymir.co.jp hio\100hio.jp
hops\100sco.com hops\100scoot.pdev.sco.com
+ian.goodacre\100xtra.co.nz ian\100debian.lan
ingo_weinhold\100gmx.de bonefish\100cs.tu-berlin.de
james\100mastros.biz theorb\100desert-island.me.uk
diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index 28e4ecc..f34979c 100644
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -697,6 +697,20 @@ You can also subscript a list to get a single element from
it:
$dir = (getpwnam("daemon"))[7];
+=head2 Multi-dimensional array emulation
+
+Multidimensional arrays may be emulated by subscripting a hash with a
+list. The elements of the list are joined with the subscript separator
+(see L<perlvar/$;>).
+
+ $foo{$a,$b,$c}
+
+is equivalent to
+
+ $foo{join($;, $a, $b, $c)}
+
+The default subscript separator is "\034", the same as SUBSEP in B<awk>.
+
=head2 Slices
X<slice> X<array, slice> X<hash, slice>
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