Hello Zentara,

Thank you for the quick response. Yes it is true that working with an abstract understanding helps many times. Therefore I have no problems accepting some things as internal magic so long as I understand what values and in what format I need to pass when calling these subroutines. For example, in the earlier mentioned thread: http://perlmonks.com/?node_id=840707 (i) what values and in what format I pass to select a column and be able to retrieve the column number that was selected (ii) similarly how to select an individual cell and retrieve the row,col of that cell.

But without even knowing what values and in what format to pass, I'm having difficulty even for abstract understanding at the programmer level. Yes, I did earlier try commenting out each of these three calls but the program fails to work. I'm taking a look at the HList selection example thread you mentioned. I hope it helps.

Meanwhile if somebody can tell me what values (and format) I need to pass to these three subroutines to get column selection, individual cell selection etc., it will be whole lot useful. Also, what does the @{...} syntax do ?? (the one used while calling curselection sub)

Thanks again

In reply to Re^4: A TableMatrix row selection question by Anonymous Monk
in thread A TableMatrix row selection question by Anonymous Monk

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