hi,
what I'm wanting to do is generate an array named after a string that is
found in a text file.
i.e something like this:
if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
@$1=(); #this is the line I want to acheive my aim with!
}
I know the syntax is wrong, but hopefully it explains what I'm trying to
do, a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi,
>
> what I'm wanting to do is generate an array named after a string that is
> found in a text file.
>
> i.e something like this:
> if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
> @$1=(); #this is the line I want to acheive my aim with!
> }
>
> I know the syntax is wrong, but
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:57 AM
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> Subject: generating arrays on the fly
>
>
> hi,
>
> what I'm wanting to do is generate an array named after a
> string that is
> found in a text file.
>
> i.e something like this
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: generating arrays on the fly
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>
> hi,
>
> what I'm wanting to do is generate an array named after a
On Aug 27, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan said:
>> if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
>> @$1=(); #this is the line I want to acheive my aim with!
>> }
>
> if ($line=~(/^\[\[(\w+)\]\]/)){
> eval('@' .$1 .' = () ') || warn $@
> }
First, don't do that. You're doing symbolic references in effect.
Second
Thanx
I am not a great master of perl , but have been getting my job done
with perl for the past 2 years. Can u educate me why I cant do 'symbolic
references' in eval('@' .$1 .' = () ')
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 03:31, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Aug 27, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan said:
>
> >> i
On 28 Aug 2002, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
> Thanx
> I am not a great master of perl , but have been getting my job done
> with perl for the past 2 years. Can u educate me why I cant do 'symbolic
> references' in eval('@' .$1 .' = () ')
This does not just apply for eval, symbolic reference
Hi ,
The name of the global var is put into symtab during compilation while that of local
var is converted to its offset. So if u want to "NAME" a var at run-time, u won't
succeed. All u can do is that use hash-table with the KEYNAMES as those words
appearing in the file.
Read about the th
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>
> Thanx
> I
