in reply to variable in perl

$$ is a prototype, described in perldoc perlsub.

ref is described in perldoc -f ref, and is used here to find out if $logtext is a scalar or a reference to an array.

@$ dereferences the array reference (thus treating it as a regular array).

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Re^2: variable in perl
by sveera (Initiate) on Jun 17, 2005 at 18:02 UTC
    Hi dorward, thanks a lot for your response.i shall go through the help available in the perl man pages. Thanks Veera
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