This is because you gave the same name to the array and to the scalar variables.
$array[2] means the third element of @array. $array->[2] refers to the element from $array reference. Teddy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "beginners perl" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 17:31 PM Subject: References Question In the code below, I thought $array[2] and $array->[2] were different but they give me the same result. Any explaination for this? my @array = (1,2,3); my $array [EMAIL PROTECTED]; print ref($array); print $array[2]; print $array->[2]; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
