02-04-2004
Passing a variable name to be created within a function
Is it possible to pass a variable name, as a parameter to a function, so it can be created within this function ?
Something like this:
func_uppercase abcdefgh var_name
where the 1st parameter is the string I want to convert and the 2nd is the desired variable name...
$2=`echo "$1" | $TR_PATH "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"`
(TR_PATH contains the path of the tr that accepts these options...
TR_PATH='/usr/bin/tr')
I tried to run this and it returns a msg like:
var_name="string..." : not found
I'm using ksh under Sun OS...
Thanks anyway !
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padwalker
PadWalker(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PadWalker(3)
NAME
PadWalker - play with other peoples' lexical variables
SYNOPSIS
use PadWalker qw(peek_my peek_our peek_sub closed_over);
...
DESCRIPTION
PadWalker is a module which allows you to inspect (and even change!) lexical variables in any subroutine which called you. It will only
show those variables which are in scope at the point of the call.
PadWalker is particularly useful for debugging. It's even used by Perl's built-in debugger. (It can also be used for evil, of course.)
I wouldn't recommend using PadWalker directly in production code, but it's your call. Some of the modules that use PadWalker internally are
certainly safe for and useful in production.
peek_my LEVEL
peek_our LEVEL
The LEVEL argument is interpreted just like the argument to "caller". So peek_my(0) returns a reference to a hash of all the "my"
variables that are currently in scope; peek_my(1) returns a reference to a hash of all the "my" variables that are in scope at the
point where the current sub was called, and so on.
"peek_our" works in the same way, except that it lists the "our" variables rather than the "my" variables.
The hash associates each variable name with a reference to its value. The variable names include the sigil, so the variable $x is
represented by the string '$x'.
For example:
my $x = 12;
my $h = peek_my (0);
${$h->{'$x'}}++;
print $x; # prints 13
Or a more complex example:
sub increment_my_x {
my $h = peek_my (1);
${$h->{'$x'}}++;
}
my $x=5;
increment_my_x;
print $x; # prints 6
peek_sub SUB
The "peek_sub" routine takes a coderef as its argument, and returns a hash of the "my" variables used in that sub. The values will
usually be undefined unless the sub is in use (i.e. in the call-chain) at the time. On the other hand:
my $x = "Hello!";
my $r = peek_sub(sub {$x})->{'$x'};
print "$$r
"; # prints 'Hello!'
If the sub defines several "my" variables with the same name, you'll get the last one. I don't know of any use for "peek_sub" that
isn't broken as a result of this, and it will probably be deprecated in a future version in favour of some alternative interface.
closed_over SUB
"closed_over" is similar to "peek_sub", except that it only lists the "my" variables which are used in the subroutine but defined
outside: in other words, the variables which it closes over. This does have reasonable uses: see Data::Dump::Streamer, for example (a
future version of which may in fact use "closed_over").
set_closed_over SUB, HASH_REF
"set_closed_over" reassigns the pad variables that are closed over by the subroutine.
The second argument is a hash of references, much like the one returned from "closed_over".
var_name LEVEL, VAR_REF
var_name SUB, VAR_REF
"var_name(sub, var_ref)" returns the name of the variable referred to by "var_ref", provided it is a "my" variable used in the sub. The
"sub" parameter can be either a CODE reference or a number. If it's a number, it's treated the same way as the argument to "peek_my".
For example,
my $foo;
print var_name(0, $foo); # prints '$foo'
sub my_name {
return var_name(1, shift);
}
print my_name($foo); # ditto
AUTHOR
Robin Houston <robin@cpan.org>
With contributions from Richard Soberberg, Jesse Luehrs and Yuval Kogman, bug-spotting from Peter Scott, Dave Mitchell and Goro Fuji, and
suggestions from demerphq.
SEE ALSO
Devel::LexAlias, Devel::Caller, Sub::Parameters
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2009, Robin Houston. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified
under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.16.3 2012-08-24 PadWalker(3)