arrays

[ErichTheWebGuy]

I have several arrays that are named like this:

@array_1
@array_2
@array_3

etc..

I want to call upon their data like this:

@array_$variable[0]

but its not working... anyone know how I can get this to work?

 

[JustKIDn]

I think it's something like

$array_1[0]

Does that help?
tgus

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[ErichTheWebGuy]

Thanks for your reply. I should have been more clear. What I need to do is loop through the arrays and extract their data and parse it for output. So, I wanted to do something like this:

@array_1='something','something else','more stuff';
@array 2='still more stuff','lotsa stuff','i hate stuff';
# etc... like that until array 15

sub whatever {
 $current=1;
 $upperLimit=15;
 
 if($current ne $upperLimit) {
  print @array_$current[0];
  print @array_$current[1];
  &whatever;
 }
}

But, it doesn't recognize $current and insert that where it should...

 

[justice41]

You need to eval the variable name that you assemble in a string

$data = eval '$array_'.$variable.'[0]';
# Or
$data = eval "\$array_$variable\[0]";

Take a look at this thread, too.

thread219-320997

jaa

 

[ErichTheWebGuy]

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed!