[TriLUG] perl programming question

[John F Davis]

Hello

I have a simple perl problem for those of you who know perl.


I have a hash table which contains info based upon keys which are
partitions.

$partHash{"/dev/hde1"} = "some info (partition type amongst other things."

Later, I am in a loop where I have a $drive variable which contains
"/dev/hde" and
I want to get access to variables in the hash table.

ie.

for ($i=0, $i < $numOfPartitions; $i++) {
      #cylinder info is manipulated and not needed for this example
                print "$begCyl, $endCyl, $partHash("$drive$i"), $boot \n";
}

However, this bit doesn't work.  $drive$i fails miserably.  If it was
bash, I would do ${drive}$i, but that doesn't work either.

JD