Thanks for the link. That's exactly the explanation I was looking for...
I progressed quickly through the first Oreilly book (Learning Perl) but slowed down considerably in the 2nd (Intermediate Perl). I found the chapter on Subroutine References (7) more difficult than earlier material (my brain nearly exploded when reading the section "returning a subroutine from a subroutine") so I decided to stop and go back to basics until I achieve a better understanding. It didn't occur to me to open up the Advanced Perl Programming book (what I intended to read as my 3rd book)!
Rob Coops wrote:
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 <mailto: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
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