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

Hi,
This is daft, silly and very easy but I can't find the answer anywhere, I feel silly even asking it but how can I turn a reference to an array, back into a nice easy to manage array again?
Thanks,
Tom

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Re: Dereferencing an array
by Tomte (Priest) on May 13, 2004 at 12:19 UTC 

    my @array = @$array_ref;

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    see perlref for further information

    regards,
    tomte

    An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
    -- Albert Camus

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[d/l]

      ah cool thanks, I knew it was something silly like that.
      Cheers.

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Re: Dereferencing an array
by davido (Cardinal) on May 13, 2004 at 16:21 UTC
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