cool thanks for the detail, but now I have played a little with certain fields of a /etc/passwd file and I am back to the original problem...its printing the hash address not the actual values. All I need is to store the name,uid,gid and comments into a hash from the @{$dublin_aref} which is the glob of passwd files opened via <FILE>. thank you
use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; my @dublinaray = glob("/home/user/passwd.*"); my $dublin_aref = \@dublinaray; my %dublin_hosts = (); my (@tmp_values,@dub_values,) = (); my ($dub_key,$name,$uid,$gid,$cmts,$dub_values); parse_file(); sub parse_file { foreach my $element ( @{$dublin_aref} ) { { local *FILE; open (FILE, "+<$element") or die "dublin file '$element' did not o +pen: $!"; local $/ = undef; ($dub_key) = $element =~ m|\.(\w+\.\w+)\z|i; ($name) = (split /:/, <FILE>) [0]; ($uid) = (split /:/, <FILE>) [2]; ($gid) = (split /:/, <FILE>) [3]; ($cmts) = (split /:/, <FILE>) [4]; @tmp_values = ($name,$uid,$gid,$cmts); $dub_values = \@tmp_values; push ( @{$dublin_hosts{$dub_key}}, $dub_values ); } } while ( ($dub_key,$dub_values) = each %dublin_hosts ) { print Dumper("$dub_key => @{$dub_values}\n"); }
The code below works, yet I am still trying to figure out why the above code does not:
open (FILE, "+</cygdrive/c/temp/passwd.oftappp1.hpux"); my (@values,$name,$uid,$gid,$comments) = (); foreach my $file (<FILE>) { ($name) = (split /:/ , $file) [0]; ($uid) = (split /:/ , $file) [2]; ($gid) = (split /:/ , $file) [3]; ($comments) = (split /:/ , $file) [4]; @values = ($name,$uid,$gid,$comments); print join ("\t", @values,"\n"); }
I ran it in debug mode and I am seeing:
perl -d uid_check.pl Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.22 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(uid_check.pl:22): $ENV{"PATH"} = qq(/usr/bin:/bin:/home/ +dbsmith:/home/dbsmith/McGaw); DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:23): delete @ENV{qw (IFS CDPATH ENV KSH_ENV + BASH_ENV)}; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:27): open (LOG, ">>/tmp/uid_ck.log") or war +n "uid_ck.log did not open $!"; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:29): my $overide = $SIG{__DIE__}; ## get + error handler currently assigned 2 die main::(uid_check.pl:30): $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:34): }; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:38): my @dublinaray = glob("/home/dbsmith/ +passwd.*"); DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:39): my $dublin_aref = \@dublinaray; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:40): my @mcgawaray = glob("/home/dbsmith/ +McGaw/passwd.*"); DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:41): my $mcgaw_aref = \@mcgawaray; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:42): my (%dublin_hosts,%mcgaw_hosts) = (); DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:43): my (@tmp_values,@dub_values,) = (); DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:44): my ($dub_key,$name,$uid,$gid,$cmts,$mc +g_key,$dub_values); DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:52): foreach my $element ( @{$dublin_ar +ef} ) { DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:52): foreach my $element ( @{$dublin_ar +ef} ) { DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:53): { local *FILE; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:53): { local *FILE; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:54): open (FILE, "+<$element") or d +ie "dublin file '$element' did not open: $!"; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:55): local $/ = undef; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:56): ($dub_key) = $element =~ m| +\.(\w+\.\w+)\z|i; DB<1> n main::(uid_check.pl:57): ($name) = (split /:/, <FILE>) +[0]; ## ONLY ONE THAT WORKS ## DB<1> print $dub_key; admbakp1.hpux DB<2> n main::(uid_check.pl:58): ($uid) = (split /:/, <FILE>) +[2]; DB<2> print $name; root DB<3> n main::(uid_check.pl:59): ($gid) = (split /:/, <FILE>) +[3]; DB<3> print $uid; Use of uninitialized value in print at (eval 31)[/opt/perl/lib/5.8.2/perl5db.pl:618] line 2, <FILE> chunk 1 + (#1) (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were alread +y defined. It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mi +stake. To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables. To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what ope +ration you used the undefined value in. Note, however, that perl optimiz +es your program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessa +rily appear literally in your program. For example, "that $foo" is usually optimized into "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer +to the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your program. Use of uninitialized value in print at (eval 31)[/opt/perl/lib/5.8.2/p +erl5db.pl:618] line 2, <FILE> chunk 1. diagnostics::warn_trap('Use of uninitialized value in print at + (eval 31)[/opt/perl/li...') called at (eval 31)[/opt/perl/lib/5.8.2/ +perl5db.pl:618] line 2 eval '($@, $!, $^E, $,, $/, $\\, $^W) = @saved;package main; $ +^D = $^D | $DB::db_stop; print $uid;; ;' called at /opt/perl/lib/5.8.2/perl5db.pl line 618 DB::eval called at /opt/perl/lib/5.8.2/perl5db.pl line 3314 DB::DB called at uid_check.pl line 59 DB<4> q

In reply to Re^4: printing array reference and storing this data in a hash. by mikejones
in thread printing array reference and storing this data in a hash. by mikejones

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