Bryan, et al --

...and then Bryan R Harris said...
% 
% Nope, the compiler won't allow that...  Does it work for you?
% 
% It gives the errors:
%   Scalar value @lines[0] better written as $lines[0] at ...
%   Can't use subscript on array slice at ...  near "1]"
%   Execution ... aborted due to compilation errors.

Well, I didn't quite get *that* error, but I did get a problem at ][.

I found that nothing I could do with the [0][0,1] style would work; when
I tried 

  print "@lines[0]"

I got the array reference itself, "ARRAY(0x80f8754)".  I was able to spit
out either cat or dog with

  % perl -e '$lines[0] = ["dog","cat"]; print "@lines[0]->[0]\n";'
  dog
  % perl -e '$lines[0] = ["dog","cat"]; print "@lines[0]->[1]\n";'
  cat

but still got only "cat" when I tried "[0,1]".  Hrmmm...

Now I'm interested in this, too :-)


% 
% - B


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