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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting '*' vs. '@' in Korn Shell Array Variables Post 302672503 by Scott on Monday 16th of July 2012 12:17:24 PM
Old 07-16-2012
Hi.

The best definition I could find:

Quote:
When subscript is *, the list of array subscripts for vname is generated ... When subscript is @, same as above, except that when used in double quotes, each array subscript yields a separate argument.
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PPI::Structure::Subscript(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      PPI::Structure::Subscript(3)

NAME
PPI::Structure::Subscript - Braces that represent an array or hash subscript SYNOPSIS
# The end braces for all of the following are subscripts $foo->[...] $foo[...] $foo{...}[...] $foo->{...} $foo{...} $foo[]{...} INHERITANCE
PPI::Structure::Subscript isa PPI::Structure isa PPI::Node isa PPI::Element DESCRIPTION
"PPI::Structure::Subscript" is the class used for square and curly braces that specify one element of an array or hash (or a slice/subset of an array or hash) METHODS
"PPI::Structure::Subscript" has no methods beyond those provided by the standard PPI::Structure, PPI::Node and PPI::Element methods. Got any ideas for methods? Submit a report to rt.cpan.org! SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module. AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.18.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Structure::Subscript(3)
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