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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl - system command Post 84525 by cbkihong on Monday 26th of September 2005 07:52:37 PM
Old 09-26-2005
As I said, I have made some temporary references with the first statement. In my case this is an array reference (think about it like a pointer to an array) containing the filename together with the mtime as two separate array items.

To access an item from a normal array by index you will

$array[0], $array[1]

If the corresponding array is pointed to by a reference and you need to access an item through the reference, that becomes

$$arrayref[0], $$arrayref[1]

OR (both syntax will work)

$arrayref->[0], $arrayref->[1]

which literally means "dereference and then index in the underlying array".

Understanding these require some knowledge about references in Perl.

The official page that talks about this:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlref.html
 

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