Re: Getting Matching Items From An Array

This is an excellent post Limbic~Region++. One note which I would make however is that the exists function can be of use with arrays where testing that an index is within the bounds of the defined array (without autovivifying a non-existent element) - This may be something useful which you can add to this text.

perl -le "print unpack'N', pack'B32', '00000000000000000000001011100111'"

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Re^2: Getting Matching Items From An Array by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jul 06, 2004 at 12:58 UTC
rob_au, Instead of adding it, I have updated the node to remove exists in that section as it was not necessary. It did not occur to me that novices might see exists as improper with an array and total miss using a string as an index. While your point is well taken, I believe "Autovivication Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them" deserves to be a tutorial all to itself. Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^2: Getting Matching Items From An Array by hardburn (Abbot) on Jul 06, 2004 at 14:55 UTC
exists still autovivifies in some situations: `use Data::Dumper; my %h = ( foo => 1 ); print "Exists" if exists $h{bar}[2]; print Data::Dumper::Dumper \%h; __END__ $VAR1 = { 'bar' => [], 'foo' => 1 };` [download] Which probably isn't the right thing to do. ---- send money to your kernel via the boot loader.. This and more wisdom available from Markov Hardburn.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Getting Matching Items From An Array by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Jul 21, 2004 at 20:21 UTC
It should only autoviv that array element if the hash key is already defined IMHO... Grygonos	[reply]
Re^2: Getting Matching Items From An Array by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 06, 2004 at 15:21 UTC
I'm not so sure there's a huge benefit here. `my @x; $x[9] = 1; print "$#x ", scalar(@x), $/; print exists $x[2] ? 1 : 0, $/; print defined $x[2] ? 1 : 0, $/; + $x[2] = undef; print exists $x[2] ? 1 : 0, $/; print defined $x[2] ? 1 : 0, $/; ---- 9 10 0 0 1 0` [download] Basically, all you're saying is whether that element was assigned to. That's different from "Is this index within the bounds of the array?", which is tested by `if ($i <= $#array)`. ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. Then there are Damian modules.... sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon.* - flyingmoose I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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