An associative array is the old name for a hash, which isn't what you're using.
At 10:14 AM 8/14/01 -0700, Eric Wang wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>Got a quick question.
>If I let @foo = "some string";
>can I access say the "t" in this string by using $foo[6] ?
You've got a scalar which you want to treat as an array. Put the string in
a scalar, and use the substr() function (perldoc -f substr).
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