Adding elements to a array reference

TASdvlper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All,

I have a array reference, which points to other arrays. What I would like to do is to add more data to the array before I print it out.

print code:

for my $col (@array)  {
   for my $row (@$col)  {
      print "$row\n";
   }
}
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say I have a new array

my @new_array = qw ( foo bar foobar barfoo );
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How do I add that to array @array ? I'm probably overlooking over something easy. I know I can't use 'push' because the elements of @array are references.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Adding elements to a array reference by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 15, 2004 at 15:22 UTC
I know I can't use 'push' because the elements of @array are references. Huh? push doesn't care what the elements of the array are. If you want to add elements to an array, just push with the name of the array as first argument: `push @array => @new_array; # Adds four elements to @array push @array => \@new_array; # Adds one element to @array, # it being a reference to @new_array. push @array => [@new_array];# Adds one element to @array, # it being a reference to a copy of @n +ew_array.` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Adding elements to a array reference by TASdvlper (Monk) on Jan 15, 2004 at 19:37 UTC
got it. Thanks.	[reply]
Re: Adding elements to a array reference by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jan 15, 2004 at 15:27 UTC
I think you meant for your inner loop to be `for my $row (@$col)`. Just `push(@array, \@new_array)` if you want it to literally refer to `@new_array`, or `push(@array, [@new_array])` if you want to copy it in. The PerlMonk `tr///` Advocate	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Adding elements to a array reference by TASdvlper (Monk) on Jan 15, 2004 at 19:35 UTC
ahh, yes I did mean that. Thanks a bunch.	[reply]