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Bryan R Harris

Jul 11 2005, 09:35 PM

Is it possible to easily initialize an array so that:

$index[0] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
$index[1] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
...
$index[$#params] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)

I tried:

@index = ([0,0]) x @params;

.... but it seems to create a bunch of pointers to the same array, e.g.
$index[1][0] points to the same thing as $index[0][0]. I need them to be
different.

TIA.

- Bryan

John W. Krahn

Jul 11 2005, 09:47 PM

Bryan R Harris wrote:

QUOTE

Is it possible to easily initialize an array so that:

$index[0] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
$index[1] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
...
$index[$#params] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)

I tried:

@index = ([0,0]) x @params;

... but it seems to create a bunch of pointers to the same array, e.g.
$index[1][0] points to the same thing as $index[0][0]. I need them to be
different.

@index = map [0,0], 0 .. $#params;

John
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Bob Showalter

Jul 12 2005, 11:24 AM

Bryan R Harris wrote:

QUOTE

Is it possible to easily initialize an array so that:

$index[0] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
$index[1] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
...
$index[$#params] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)

I tried:

@index = ([0,0]) x @params;

... but it seems to create a bunch of pointers to the same array, e.g.
$index[1][0] points to the same thing as $index[0][0]. I need them
to be different.

push @index, [0, 0] for @params;

Bryan R Harris

Jul 12 2005, 04:54 PM

Excellent, thanks Bob and John!

- B

QUOTE

Bryan R Harris wrote:

Is it possible to easily initialize an array so that:

$index[0] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
$index[1] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)
...
$index[$#params] is a pointer to a new anonymous (?) array (0,0)

I tried:

@index = ([0,0]) x @params;

... but it seems to create a bunch of pointers to the same array, e.g.
$index[1][0] points to the same thing as $index[0][0]. I need them to be
different.

@index = map [0,0], 0 .. $#params;

John

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