[Chicago-talk] Using "@" to reference element in array

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Oct 1 16:05:58 PDT 2009


>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> writes:

Jay> print @array[2];

Think of that as the same as @array[2..2], as in, a list that has
only one element.  "print" prints a single element list in the same
way that it prints a scalar.

But let's put this on the left side of an assignent:

$array[2] = @ARGV; # get the count of arguments into $array[2]
@array[2..2] = @ARGV; # get the first argument ($ARGV[0]) into $array[2]

quite different reactions!

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