Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2532 mails)

[Sam Clemens <clemens.sam1@xxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates:
>
>     I don't know who I have to thank for this, but I think it was Anders 
> who recommended that I look at perl after one of my last weird bash 
> questions. I have a syntax question as I go though perl.
>
>     The situation. I read a file into an array and then go to reference 
> each line.
>
> my $NUM = 1;
> open FILE, ".bashrc" or die $!;
> my @array = <FILE>;
>
>     How is it legal that I can reference the array element either as 
> @array[element] or $array[element]?:
>
> while (@array[$NUM]) {
>     print "$NUM : @array[$NUM]\n";
>     $NUM++;
> }
>
> while ($array[$NUM]) {
>     print "$NUM : $array[$NUM]\n";
>     $NUM++;
> }
>
>     From what I've read, it seems like the list $array[element] would 
> just return the number of characters in the list $array[element] not the 
> text itself. How should I think about this?


I gave up on perl.
It makes my brain hurt -- like trying to read 1970's era BASIC code.

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