Jun 22, 2008

Difference between array and array reference

#!F:\Perl\bin\perl -w
use strict;

my $array = [ qw/sandhya prabhath eswar vamsi/];
print $array[0]; # Throws error since $array is a reference, you can't accesss directly
print $array->[0]; # sandhya

my @arr = qw/ 100 200 300/;
print $arr[0]; # Now you cn access as usual, since it is an array

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