access variables from array and set it back
 

I have these variables:
my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
my $namex = 'Dr. X';

I want to push this into a hash array or array of variables & values.

Later on, I want loop through these array and modify the value and set
back to the variable.


do a loop now
get variable back
change value

$path1 = 'c:\newpath';
$filea = 'Y:\newfilea.txt';
$namex = 'Dr. Y';

How can I achieve something like this? Thanks.

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

Slickuser <slick.users@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have these variables:
>my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
>my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
>my $namex = 'Dr. X';
>
>I want to push this into a hash array or array of variables & values.

May I suggest that you get your terminology straightened out first? It
makes communication so much easier if everyone uses the same terms for
the same things.

There are hashes: they are mappings from strings to scalars. In the old
days they were also called associative arrays.
There are arrays: they are mappings from (consecutive whole) numbers to
scalars.
There are variables: they can be any of scalar, array, hash, and a few
other types.
And there are values: they are typically stored in variables.

Now, having said that, there are no arrays of variables.

>Later on, I want loop through these array and modify the value and set
>back to the variable.
>
>do a loop now
>get variable back
>change value
>
>$path1 = 'c:\newpath';
>$filea = 'Y:\newfilea.txt';
>$namex = 'Dr. Y';
>
>How can I achieve something like this? Thanks.

Wild guess: maybe you are looking for a simple hash?
%myhash = (path1 => 'c:\newpath',
filea => 'Y:\newfilea.txt',
namex => 'Dr. Y};

You can loop through the entries by
foreach (keys(%myhash) {
print $myhash{$_};
}
And of course you can assign and modify the values as you please, too.

Or are you looking for references, i.e. you want to store a reference to
each of your variables in such a hash or an array and then work with
those references?

jue

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

I want to reference the variables and change the value to that
reference variable.

On Apr 24, 4:29*pm, Jürgen Exner <jurge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Slickuser <slick.us...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I have these variables:
> >my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
> >my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
> >my $namex = 'Dr. X';
>
> >I want to push this into a hash array or array of variables & values.
>
> May I suggest that you get your terminology straightened out first? It
> makes communication so much easier if everyone uses the same terms for
> the same things.
>
> There are hashes: they are mappings from strings to scalars. In the old
> days they were also called associative arrays.
> There are arrays: they are mappings from (consecutive whole) numbers to
> scalars.
> There are variables: they can be any of scalar, array, hash, and a few
> other types.
> And there are values: they are typically stored in variables.
>
> Now, having said that, there are no arrays of variables.
>
> >Later on, I want loop through these array and modify the value and set
> >back to the variable.
>
> >do a loop now
> >get variable back
> >change value
>
> >$path1 = 'c:\newpath';
> >$filea = 'Y:\newfilea.txt';
> >$namex = 'Dr. Y';
>
> >How can I achieve something like this? Thanks.
>
> Wild guess: maybe you are looking for a simple hash?
> %myhash = (path1 => 'c:\newpath',
> * * * * * * * * filea => 'Y:\newfilea.txt',
> * * * * * * * * namex => 'Dr. Y};
>
> You can loop through the entries by
> * * * * foreach (keys(%myhash) {
> * * * * * * * * print $myhash{$_};
> * * * * }
> And of course you can assign and modify the values as you please, too.
>
> Or are you looking for references, i.e. you want to store a reference to
> each of your variables in such a hash or an array and then work with
> those references?
>
> jue

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

[Re-ordered into standard reading order]
Slickuser <slick.users@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Apr 24, 4:29*pm, Jürgen Exner <jurge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Slickuser <slick.us...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >I have these variables:
>> >my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
>> >my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
>> >my $namex = 'Dr. X';
>>
>> >I want to push this into a hash array or array of variables & values.
>>
>> May I suggest that you get your terminology straightened out first? It
>> makes communication so much easier if everyone uses the same terms for
>> the same things.
[...]
>> Or are you looking for references, i.e. you want to store a reference to
>> each of your variables in such a hash or an array and then work with
>> those references?

>I want to reference the variables and change the value to that
>reference variable.

Then please see "perldoc perlreftut" and "perldoc perlref".

jue

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
my $namex = 'Dr. X';

My goal is get from the top the end.

$path1 = 'c:\newpath';
$filea = 'Y:\newfilea.txt';
$namex = 'Dr. Y';


The top will assign by manually by the user, but the bottom one will
somehow automate re-assign the value. I don't want to do one by one.
That's why I'm thinking of putting in a hash and loop and modify the
value. This is where I'm stuck.

Mostly I just do a replace and search but I don't know which variable
to set it back to.

How would I achieve this in a loop?
$HASHX{'path1'} = $path1;
$HASHX{'filea '} = $filea;



On Apr 24, 6:20*pm, Jürgen Exner <jurge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> [Re-ordered into standard reading order]
>
>
>
> Slickuser <slick.us...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Apr 24, 4:29*pm, Jürgen Exner <jurge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Slickuser <slick.us...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >I have these variables:
> >> >my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
> >> >my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
> >> >my $namex = 'Dr. X';
>
> >> >I want to push this into a hash array or array of variables & values.
>
> >> May I suggest that you get your terminology straightened out first? It
> >> makes communication so much easier if everyone uses the same terms for
> >> the same things.
> [...]
> >> Or are you looking for references, i.e. you want to store a reference to
> >> each of your variables in such a hash or an array and then work with
> >> those references?
> >I want to reference the variables and change the value to that
> >reference variable.
>
> Then please see "perldoc perlreftut" and "perldoc perlref".
>
> jue

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

perl -le '
$path1 = "c:\\abc";
$filea = "Y:\\a.txt";
$namex = "Dr. X";
@refs = \($path1, $filea, $namex);
@values = ("c:\\newpath", "Y:\\newfilea.txt", "Dr. Y");
${ $refs[$_] } = $values[$_] for 0..2;
print for $path1, $filea, $namex;
'
c:\newpath
Y:\newfilea.txt
Dr. Y

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

[Re-ordered AGAIN into standard reading order]
[Please do not top post]
Slickuser <slick.users@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Apr 24, 6:20*pm, Jürgen Exner <jurge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> [Re-ordered into standard reading order]
>> Slickuser <slick.us...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >On Apr 24, 4:29*pm, Jürgen Exner <jurge...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Slickuser <slick.us...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >I have these variables:
>> >> >my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
>> >> >my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
>> >> >my $namex = 'Dr. X';
>>
>> >> >I want to push this into a hash array or array of variables & values.
>>
>> >> May I suggest that you get your terminology straightened out first? It
>> >> makes communication so much easier if everyone uses the same terms for
>> >> the same things.
>> [...]
>> >> Or are you looking for references, i.e. you want to store a reference to
>> >> each of your variables in such a hash or an array and then work with
>> >> those references?
>> >I want to reference the variables and change the value to that
>> >reference variable.
>>
>> Then please see "perldoc perlreftut" and "perldoc perlref".
>>
>> jue
>my $path1 = 'c:\abc';
>my $filea = 'Y:\a.txt';
>my $namex = 'Dr. X';
>
>My goal is get from the top the end.
>
>$path1 = 'c:\newpath';
>$filea = 'Y:\newfilea.txt';
>$namex = 'Dr. Y';
>
>
>The top will assign by manually by the user, but the bottom one will
>somehow automate re-assign the value. I don't want to do one by one.
>That's why I'm thinking of putting in a hash and loop and modify the
>value. This is where I'm stuck.

Sorry, my EPS::PSI capabilities are very limited and I am very poor at
guessing what other people might have meant.
Someone else will have to decode the paragraph above and translate it
into plain English. I have no idea what you mean by that.

>Mostly I just do a replace and search but I don't know which variable
>to set it back to.
>
>How would I achieve this in a loop?
>$HASHX{'path1'} = $path1;
>$HASHX{'filea '} = $filea;

I don't get it. Are you looking for references are you looking for loops
or what? One day you are saying X and the next day you are saying Y. I
am lost and am giving up now.

jue

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

This is what I want.

Can do I this in a loop?

$path1 = "c:\\abc";
$filea = "Y:\\a.txt";
$namex = "Dr. X";
@refs = \($path1, $filea, $namex);

I don't want to the set the values right away. Just loop through refs
then doing search & replace.
And set this value to the variable.

I'll look at this example and modify it. thank you.

On Apr 26, 10:16*pm, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nore...@gunnar.cc> wrote:
> perl -le '
> $path1 = "c:\\abc";
> $filea = "Y:\\a.txt";
> $namex = "Dr. X";
> @refs = \($path1, $filea, $namex);
> @values = ("c:\\newpath", "Y:\\newfilea.txt", "Dr. Y");
> ${ $refs[$_] } = $values[$_] for 0..2;
> print for $path1, $filea, $namex;
> '
> c:\newpath
> Y:\newfilea.txt
> Dr. Y
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> Email:http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

Re: access variables from array and set it back
 

Slickuser wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> perl -le '
>> $path1 = "c:\\abc";
>> $filea = "Y:\\a.txt";
>> $namex = "Dr. X";
>> @refs = \($path1, $filea, $namex);
>> @values = ("c:\\newpath", "Y:\\newfilea.txt", "Dr. Y");
>> ${ $refs[$_] } = $values[$_] for 0..2;
>> print for $path1, $filea, $namex;
>> '
>> c:\newpath
>> Y:\newfilea.txt
>> Dr. Y
>
> This is what I want.
>
> Can do I this in a loop?
>
> $path1 = "c:\\abc";
> $filea = "Y:\\a.txt";
> $namex = "Dr. X";
> @refs = \($path1, $filea, $namex);
>
> I don't want to the set the values right away. Just loop through refs
> then doing search & replace.

You have three scalar variables, so search and replace does not make
sense IMO. Either you reassign the variables directly, or you reassign
them indirectly via references.

Or did I miss something?

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl