On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:42:17 -0500, c. church wrote:
>$hash{foo}{bar}{baz} is extrmely descriptive. I
>like it. I can look in once place and see exactly what I need.
Yeah... but what I don't like, is that if I have an array (or list):
@follow = ('foo', 'bar', 'baz');
that I can't have a simple expression with \%hash and @follow which will
look up the above expression or me. All I can do, is create a loop that
follows each ref:
my $ref = \%hash;
foreach (@follow) {
$ref = $ref->{$_};
}
and in the end, $ref will contain the value I want. Er, it will contain
a *copy* of the value, I can't modify the original hash element using
it.
Complicated, or what?
--
Bart.
