[TriLUG] perl programming question

[Andrew Perrin]

And, red-faced, I was wrong; hash lookups don't double quote.  So you can
use your $driveKey hack, or alternatively:

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

ap

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, John F Davis wrote:

> nevermind,
> 
> $driveKey = $drive . $i; did the trick.
> 
> John F Davis/Raleigh/IBM at ibmus@trilug.org on 03/21/2002 09:49:39 AM
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> 
> 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
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