Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:33:30PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: > > Paul Kraus wrote: > > > > > > Ok a couple questions on Ref from pg 251 programming Perl. > > > > > > push @$arrrayref,$filename); > > > $$arrayref[0]="January"; > > > @$arrayref[4..6]=qw/May June July/; > > > > > > So this is actually creating an anonymous array that it then references > > > correct? > > > so the assignments January ect are being made to an anonymous array. > > > > No, an anonymous array is delimited by [ and ]. That is creating an > > actual array that is only accessible through an array reference. > > > > my $ref = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]; > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > anonymous array > > Not worth picking a fight over, to be sure, but I don't see the > difference. Assuming $arrayref didn't exist before, then after each of > those three examples it will, and it will be a reference to an array > with no name. Seems to me that Paul got it spot on.
You are saying that it has no name but it does: arrayref. If it truly had "no name" then there would be no way to access it anywhere else in the program. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
