Dunno how it's called, but it's described in the perlref documentation, with the rest of the references possible under Perl.
You can access it by using the Active Perl documentation, and look for 'perlref' in the Core Perl Documentation, or on the commandline, type: perldoc perlref >./perlref.txt to get a text version in 'man-style'. At 04:17 13-10-01, you wrote: >Danny, > >I think this is called a symbolic reference. I'm not really sure. I know >what to do, I just don't know what anything's called. The ironic thing is >that I teach this stuff. > >Garrett > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >Danny Mallory >Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 8:39 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [sambar] Perl help > > >Garrett, >Sorry for the late reply. This is exactly what I was looking for. >Unfortunately I could not find >this under the common documentation for its function as Interpret, Variable >Interpretation, Interpolation, >or equate that are commonly referred to this in other languages. I am not >sure what terminology Perl refers to >this as. If you know that would be great so I could read up on what >variations are available. > >Thanks again, >Danny > >At 10/11/2001 04:53 PM, you wrote: > >Try this: > > > >$name="danny"; > >$$name = "test"; > > > > > >This should do what you are asking for. > > > >Garrett > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > >danny.mallory > >Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:15 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [sambar] Perl help > > > > > >I figured someone here on the list could help me answer a question. I am > >trying to do some stuff with variable interpreting. Perl has some > >documentation based on variable interpolation but this is not what I am > >looking for. Comparing to REXX I am looking for a method to interpret the > >value of a value to assign it a value. This may sound a little confusing >but > >here is how it works in rexx. Any help would be appreciated. > > > >name = "danny" > >interpret(name) = "test" > > > >Results: > >danny = "test" > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > >---- > >For unsubscription of this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >email > >data containing unsubscribe emailadd sambar > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- > >For unsubscription of this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >email > >data containing unsubscribe emailadd sambar > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >For unsubscription of this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >email >data containing unsubscribe emailadd sambar > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >For unsubscription of this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >email >data containing unsubscribe emailadd sambar ____________________________________________________ </MELVYN> void wakeup() { for(long int cuppajava;drink();cuppajava++); } -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For unsubscription of this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with email data containing unsubscribe emailadd sambar
