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What's wrong with that code ???

yaniv_av
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Dec 16, 2002, 1:55 PM

Post #1 of 3 (340 views)

What's wrong with that code ???	Can't Post

@groups=(1,2,3,4);
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I want @g1 to get (1,2) and @g2 to get (3,4).
but when I write this it won't work:
(@g1,@g2)=(@groups[0,1],@groups[2,3]);

Why ???

(This is work:
my @g1=@groups[0,1];
my @g2=@groups[2,3];)

davorg
Thaumaturge / Moderator

Dec 16, 2002, 10:56 PM

Post #2 of 3 (331 views)

Re: [yaniv_av] What's wrong with that code ??? [In reply to]	Can't Post

It doesn't work because list assignment is greedy.

Your code

Code

(@g1,@g2)=(@groups[0,1],@groups[2,3]);

is exactly equivalent to

Code

(@g1,@g2)=(1,2,3,4);

Code

(@g1,@g2)=@groups;

There is no way for Perl to know when to stop assigning to @g1 and start assigning to @g2.

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uri
Thaumaturge

Dec 23, 2002, 10:36 PM

Post #3 of 3 (316 views)

Re: [yaniv_av] What's wrong with that code ??? [In reply to]	Can't Post

there is a way to do that if you know how many items will go into each
array. this also will not clear out any parts of the array leftover and above the assigned slice.

Code

perl -e '(@a[0,1],@b[0,1])=2 .. 5; print "[@a] [@b]\n"' 
[2 3] [4 5]

by the proper use of arrays or expressions for the assigned indexes, it could be made more automatic.

but there is no reason not to use 2 separate assignment statements.
it is clearer and easier to understand. i wouldn't be suprised that is it faster than the above hack.

uri

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