You are very right a really nice explanation of this you can find in the "Advanced Perl Programming" book by Oreilly see the link below
http://oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/excerpt/ch01.html If you already went trough the other two then this is definitely a good one to read as it goes that extra step and provides you with a good insight of the underlying logic. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Brian F. Yulga <byu...@langly.dyndns.org>wrote: > > Rob Coops wrote: > > >> So you should now be able to retrieve the whole result set as a >> reference to an array containing references to arrays. And I hope >> that my ramblings explained a bit how you can use that reference to >> get to the underlying values. If you combine all of that I think >> you'll be able to work out the way to get your program to work the >> way you want it to. >> >> > FWIW, I found your ramblings quite helpful, since I am working to get more > comfortable with variables, arrays, and references, on my way to learning > objects. > > Coming from a basic understanding of C, the reference variable concept > sounds a lot like pointers in C. But, my "Learning Perl" and "Intermediate > Perl" books do not use that terminology. Am I on a correct path to > understanding by making this analogy? > > Thanks, > Brian > >
