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Buckaroo Buddha has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: (arrays)

Hi there,
I'm trying to figure out how to make sure each array claims its own memoryspace.

How do I do that?

while <> { @record = split(',',$_); $key = shift(@record); $list{$key} = \@record; }

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Re: How do I create a new array in memory?
by btrott (Parson) on Jun 27, 2000 at 02:03 UTC
    You need to declare the variable lexically with my:
    while (<>) { my @record = split /,/; my $key = shift @record; $list{$key} = \@record; }
    You can test this by printing out the array references; they should all have different addresses:
    print join "\n", values(%list), '';
Re: How do I create a new array in memory?
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 27, 2000 at 15:09 UTC

    The other way to do it is to take a copy of the array each time by using the anonymous array constructor.

    while (<>) { my @record = split /,/; my $key = shift @record; $list{$key} = [@record]; }