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Beginner with question about declarations
Let's just say I used a simple hash. #/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; srand (time ^ $$ ^ unpack "%L*", `ps axww | gzip`); # from perldoc.perl.org my %person_data; #declare hash my $number_people=10; # or =ARGV[0], STDIN, whatever my @traits =... -
Beginner with question about declarations
I want to create arrays to hold data for a series of people, say @person1, @person2, etc. but the total number of people varies each time I run the program. How do I create arrays (or strings, for that matter) for person1 through personN? I've tried variations on concatenating as seen below...
