[TriLUG] perl programming question

[Benjamin Reed]

John F Davis [johndavi at us.ibm.com] wrote:
> 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.

It should be in curly braces, not parens, and your quoting is going to
confuse it (you're closing the quote at the beginning of the print statement
with the one inside %partHash).  You'll probably have to do something like:

  print "$begCyl, $endCyl, " . $partHash{"$drive$i"} . ", $boot \n";

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