On Oct 31, Sofia said: >So in the example that Daniel shows, how would I get >(reference) the value for the shell path for the sgi >system?
Using the data structure: >> %systems = ( >> sgi => { defaults => >> ["sgi-help","/bin/csh","/home"], >> machines => ["sgi1", "sgi2"], >> }, >> linux => { defaults => >> ["someaddress-help","/bin/bash","/usr/home"], >> machines => ["linux1", "linux2"], >> }, >> dec => { defaults => >> ["help-desk","bin/kcsh","/usr1/home"], >> machines => ["dec1", "dec2"], >> }, >> ); you'd use: $systems{sgi}{defaults}[1] -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]