Re: [MacPerl] re-initializing associative arrays

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 15.08 1998.04.22, Peter Furmonavicius wrote:
>Hello.  I was under the impression that after
>
>          $a{1} = "peter";
>          undef @a;
>
>$a{1} would have no value.  Apparently that isn't the case because $a{1}
>is still equal to "peter".
>
>Can someone tell me what is the most efficient way of re-initializing an
>array?

$a{1} sets the key 1 of hash %a to 'peter'.  This has nothing at all to do
with @a.  I think you mean C<$a[1] = "peter">, which sets the second
element of @a to 'peter'.

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