Re: Arrays and Push

Well, for one thing,

$main::a = [0.25];
push @{main::hd}, [@main::a];
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You never define an array @main::a (only an array ref $main::a), so that's going to push nothing. All the explicit packages make it a little harder to read, too.

And if you fix it to $main::a, it'll be pushing a ref to an array with one element, which element is an array ref, which isn't what you want either. You're kinda shotgunning syntax at the problem. What you probably want is something much simpler like

@hd = ( [] );
$a = [0.25]
$b = [0.25, 0.5];
push @hd, $a;
push @hd, $b;
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Re^2: Arrays and Push by boftx (Deacon) on Apr 03, 2014 at 05:28 UTC
And if you fix it to $main::a, it'll be pushing a ref to an array with one element, which element is an array ref, which isn't what you want either. Actually,that is exactly what he wants and what both you and I have described. :) The element in the array ref is in fact a value and not another array. `$ cat pm1080886.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @hd = ( [] ); my $a = [0.25]; my $b = [0.25, 0.5]; push @hd, $a; push @hd, $b; print Dumper(\@hd); exit; __END__ $ ./pm1080886.pl $VAR1 = [ [], [ '0.25' ], [ '0.25', '0.5' ] ];` [download] It helps to remember that the primary goal is to drain the swamp even when you are hip-deep in alligators.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Arrays and Push by fullermd (Priest) on Apr 03, 2014 at 07:21 UTC
Actually,that is exactly what he wants and what both you and I have described. Not exactly. Just doing that sub would leave him doing a `push @hd, [$a];` construct, which would be the Wrong I described. He also needs to slay the Bracket Fairy that's sprinkling dust through the code to get the `push $hd, $a;` that you/we have there.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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