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Re^4: Array value changing for some reason

by Silt (Novice)
on Jan 01, 2019 at 09:40 UTC ( [id://1227860]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Array value changing for some reason
in thread Array value changing for some reason

What I don't understand is why I get different results in this code:
use strict; use warnings; problem([1,2,3]); sub problem { print2DArray(@_); #Output: 1 2 3 reverseArray1(@_); print2DArray(@_); #Output: 1 2 3 reverseArray2(@_); print2DArray(@_); #Output: 3 2 1 } sub reverseArray1 { my @arr = @_; for my $i (0 .. $#arr) { $arr[$i] = [reverse @{$arr[$i]}]; } } sub reverseArray2 { my @arr = @_; for my $i (0 .. $#arr) { @{$arr[$i]} = reverse @{$arr[$i]}; } } sub print2DArray { for my $i (0 .. $#_) { # How does that work for the nested for lo +op? for(my $j=0;$j<scalar(@{$_[$i]});$j++){ # $#_[$i] doesn't wor +k print $_[$i][$j]," "; } print "\n"; } }
Whats the difference between
$arr[$i] = [reverse @{$arr[$i]}];
and
@{$arr[$i]} = reverse @{$arr[$i]};
?

I still am quite new to perl, and I appreciate all the comments!

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Re^5: Array value changing for some reason
by poj (Abbot) on Jan 01, 2019 at 16:34 UTC
    $arr[$i] = [reverse @{$arr[$i]}];

    assigns a new reference (by creating a new anonymous array) to $arr[$i] replacing the reference copied from @_. Without that reference you can't change the contents of @_

    Whereas @{$arr[$i]} = reverse @{$arr[$i]} uses the reference copied from @_ to change the existing array elements.

    # $#_[$i] doesn't work
    sub print2DArray { for my $i (0 .. $#_) { for my $j (0 .. $#{$_[$i]}){ print $_[$i][$j]," "; } print "\n"; } }
    or
    sub print2DArray7 { for (@_) { print join " ",@$_; print "\n"; } }
    poj

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