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same problem (Score:2, Informative)

by spur (4197)

I struggled with the same thing today. Then I looked it up in the Cookbook, and it said:
"An array slice is exactly the same as a list of individual array elements. Because you can't take a reference to a list, you can't take a reference to an array slice".
- Re:same problem (Score:2)
  
  by rafael (2125) <rgarciasuarezNO@SPAMgmail.com> on 2003.06.04 16:12 (#20821) Homepage Journal
  
  Now if you want some serious brain hurting, try this :
  perl -le '$x="abcdef";$y=\substr $x,2,2;$$y="gh";print $x'
  (warning ! this behaviour is not documented ! use at your own risk !)
  
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