[Chicago-talk] Arrays of array references

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Clyde" == Clyde Forrester <clydeforrester at gmail.com> writes:

Clyde> @mess = ( [ "foo" , "bar" ],
Clyde>           [ "baz" , "quux" ], );
Clyde> push @mess, [ "fred" , "wilma" ];

Clyde> Then I can get the size of the array, or one element like this:

Clyde> print @mess."\n"; # 3, the size of the mess array
Clyde> print $mess[2][1]."\n"; # wilma, the second element of the array pointed
Clyde>                         # to by the third element of the mess array

Clyde> But I would like to know how to print the contents of the array to which the
Clyde> third element points. Something which would print:

Clyde> fred wilma

Third element: $mess[2]
Third element dereferenced as an array @{$mess[2]}
printed: print "@{$mess[2]}\n";

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