On May 17, Yacketta,Ronald J said:
>backint:maple aspen pine
>online:orange palm cherry
>
>is it possible to read in this file and what ever is before the : would
>become the name of
>the array?
The key is, DON'T DO THAT. Don't make arrays with names you don't know
ahead of time. It's best to keep those ANONYMOUS.
while (<FILE>) {
my ($name, $list) = split /:/, 2;
$servers{$name} = [ split ' ', $list ];
}
That makes a hash, %servers, with the names of the would-be arrays as
keys. The values in the hash are array references.
Then, instead of using an array, use @{ $servers{$name} }. It's also an
array, and far saner than making an array with a name you don't know.
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