@containeeArray is a hash of hashes containing references to the same kind of hashes as in @containerRefArray. After I get the index of the container containing %$object, in following code I look up the corresponding entry in @containeeArray. I then sort the hash in $containeeArray$i and then return the position in this sortted hash of %$object.

That was the plan anyway.

Here's the rest of the fns

<CODE> sub sort_objects { $a->{'~entPhysicalIndex'} <=> $b->{'~entPhysicalIndex'}; } sub get_parentRelPos (\%$) { my ($object, $name)=@_; my ($i, $j, $found); my (@tmp, $dummy); my $parentObject=$object->{'~PARENT'}; my $objectIndex=$object->{'~entPhysicalIndex'}; if (ref $parentObject ne 'HASH') { confess "parent object wasn't a hash"; return -1; } for ($i=0; $i < @containerRefArray; $i++) { if ($containerRefArray$i eq $parentObject) { $found=1; last; } } if ($found) { # Call the code in each contained object to obtain the entPhysicalIndex of each one and then sort them (references in containeeArray point to tied hashes) # 1: # sorting with sort sort_objects @{$containeeArray$i} didn't work for some reason ?? # 2: # @tmp=@{$containeeArray$i}; # 3: # foreach $dummy (@{containeeArray$i}) { # push @tmp, $dummy; # } # none of the above 3 methods seem to work right @tmp = sort sort_objects @tmp; for ($j=0; $j < @tmp; $j++) { if ($tmp$j eq $object) { return $j+1; } } } return -1; } <\CODE>

In reply to RE: (Guildenstern) REx3: Array mysteriously disappears on loop exit... by Anonymous Monk
in thread Array mysteriously disappears on loop exit... by Anonymous Monk

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