Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 13:45:33 +0100
From: Jasper McCrea <jasper@guideguide.com>
Subject: Re: array questions
Message-Id: <3B937B6D.1E3CB973@guideguide.com>

"E.Chang" wrote:
> 
> "Billy Ng" <kwokng@earthlink.net> wrote in
> <Ydjk7.702$IP6.68371@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>:
> 
> > I have 2 questions regarding the array.
> >
> > 1) how can I put an array into an array?  If I do push(@parent,
> > @child), it will add the @child's elements into @parent.  But I
> > each element in the array is a individual array.  Do I need the use
> > hash instead?
> 
> The elements of an array are always scalars.  To create an "array of
> arrays" you will need to use references to arrays as the elements
> rather than the arrays themselves.  Read the core documentation
> sections perlreftut, perlref, and perllol.  The documentation in
> available with your Perl installation and also online at perldoc.com.

or you could do this:

@array1 = (@array1, @array2);

(straight from 'Learning Perl' IIRC)

Jasper
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