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gooroo175
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Nov 8, 2010, 5:29 AM

Post #1 of 6 (4282 views)

reference on reference array	Can't Post

I'm looking for a way to write the following in one line.

Code

my @refs = \($var1, $var2, $var3); 
my $refRef = \@refs;

Any ideas?

BillKSmith
Veteran

Nov 8, 2010, 12:06 PM

Post #2 of 6 (4277 views)

Re: [gooroo175] reference on reference array [In reply to]	Can't Post

Code

use strict;  
use warnings;  
use Data::Dumper;   
  
my $var1 = 1;  
my $var2 = 2;  
my $var3 = 3;  
my $refRef = [\($var1, $var2, $var3)];  
print Dumper $refRef;

output:

Code

Note: the square brackets return a reference to an array.

rovf raised a good point. Line 8 of the above code is exactly what you asked for, but may not be what you need.
Good Luck,
Bill

(This post was edited by BillKSmith on Nov 9, 2010, 7:56 AM)

rovf
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Nov 9, 2010, 7:17 AM

Post #3 of 6 (4248 views)

Re: [gooroo175] reference on reference array [In reply to]	Can't Post

Do you want the array to contain the values, or to conatin references to your scalar variables?

gooroo175
Novice

Nov 9, 2010, 11:01 AM

Post #4 of 6 (4240 views)

Re: [rovf] reference on reference array [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks for the replys so far.

Actually I wanna build a function for querying a single line out of dbi. That function is supposed to call $sth->bind_columns what requires a reference to the variables to bind. I want to pass all those variable references as an array reference as one value in the call to the parent function. Would way described below work?

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query("select id from table where sth=?",[$req],[\($id)]); 
 
sub query { 
  my ($sql, $par, $colRef); 
  # first query db here 
  $sth->bind_columns(@$colRef); 
}

rovf
Veteran

Nov 10, 2010, 3:10 AM

Post #5 of 6 (4217 views)

Re: [gooroo175] reference on reference array [In reply to]	Can't Post

I think I understand. To say it otherwise: You have a set of variables $v1, $v2, $v3,...., and are looking for a neat way to construct a reference to an array containing references to variables, i.e. [\$v1,\$v2,\$v3,...]. Is this correct?

You could do it like this:

my $ref_to_array_containing_refs = map { \$_ }($v1,$v2,$v3);

The trick works, because $_ is an alias to the respective array element, not a copy.

gooroo175
Novice

Nov 10, 2010, 10:55 PM

Post #6 of 6 (4208 views)

Re: [rovf] reference on reference array [In reply to]	Can't Post

You solved it! Thank it.

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