On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:36:39PM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > Because you are passing in references you want to catch them into > scalars, then to update the values of the references you dereference > them in your push, so... > my ($potUp, $potDn) = @_; Had tried this...
> push @$potUp, [$layer, $src, $dst]; > push @$potDn, [$layer, $src, $dst]; ...but not in conjunction with this. That makes all the difference, thanks! > However I am curious if this is really doing what you want, as this adds > a new anonymous array reference to the original array rather than adding > the three values onto the end of the array, so you may need to switch > the square brackets to parentheses, or drop the grouping completely. No, what I have is what I wanted. It is adding a triplet to the array, making a 2D array. > Of course there is the whole notion of updating the external version of > the variable from within the sub in this manner, but I trust you know > what you are doing, and that you got $layer, $src, and $dst from > acceptable sources.... Yes, it offends my programming sensibilities a little too, however this function is coming from a configuration file (because I need dozens of slightly different functions, they are auto-generated by another program), and so it is 'safe' for it to modify the arrays directly. There is the potential for them to get large and I wouldn't want to create new ones, copy existing items, etc as it risks slowing my program down significantly for virtually no gain. (To get a feel for the trickyness of this, the program requires some form of programability in its configuration system, so Perl just 'do's the file, loading up appropriate variables with values) > HTH, It helps good, thanks :) -- Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JabberID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est? PGP Key 0x776DB663 Fingerprint=DD10 5C62 1E29 A385 9866 0853 CD38 E07A 776D B663
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