I'm trying to assign an existing array to an object member variable whose type is array. This should be possible, but I cant figure out how. I will also need to extract the entire array (I know how to get an individual item by indexing). Here is sample code for what I'm trying to do - of course, this code does not produce the desired result(6):

use Class::Struct qw(struct);
struct S=>[a=>'$',b=>'@']; #"b" is an array
my $a=S->new;
my @q=(4,6,7,99); # A local array 

$a->b(@q);        # What I'd like to do - gives syntax err
print  $a->b(1) # Prints NOTHING .. hoping to see "6"
$a->b($q);       # Try to assign the $$q to $a->b
print  $a->b(2) # Prints NOTHING .. hoping to see "7"

# Would also like to do 
my @x = $a->b; % Extract entire array

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I guess I'm looking for a overloaded method "b" that accepts an array parameter. I know that $a->b($scalar,$scalar) works fine.

How should I do this ???

Edited 2003-02-28 by Ovid

In reply to Accessing ARRAYS inside objects by NetWallah

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