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Re^5: Populating an array from a mysql selectby Fletch (Bishop) |
on May 04, 2007 at 19:53 UTC ( [id://613650]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Pointers and references are similar but distinctly different beasts; for example pointers can be manipulated (e.g. you add one to get to the next item), whereas references are opaque (it doesn't make sense to say $array_ref += 1). A read of perlreftut may be in order before reading perlref.
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