php has a function called extract which takes an array (no distinction
between arrays and hashes in php. in this case in perl, it'd actually be a
hash). extract takes the key values of the array (and optionally prepends a
user specified prefix to each of the values to avoid clobbering other
jason n perkins wrote:
php has a function called extract which takes an array (no distinction
between arrays and hashes in php. in this case in perl, it'd actually be a
hash). extract takes the key values of the array (and optionally prepends a
user specified prefix to each of the values to
It's not hard to do, but it is potentially dangerous since you could
overwrite globals like $/ and change the behavior of your program. In
general, it's best to avoid cluttering the symbol table.
- Perrin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jason n perkins) wrote:
php has a function called extract which takes an array (no distinction
between arrays and hashes in php. in this case in perl, it'd actually
be a hash). extract takes the key values of the array (and optionally
prepends a user specified prefix to each of
