Thanks for your feedback guys. I think I have enough material to start coding. Cheers! Anjan
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Steve Bertrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > From: ANJAN PURKAYASTHA <[email protected]> > >> Hi, > >> I have a question on creating array variables. I have a driver script > that > >> takes as input the number of files to be processed (say 7). One of the > >> children scripts needs to create array variables based on how many files > are > >> being processed (in this case 7). How do I code the following action > into > >> the child script: read the number of files to be processed. based on > this > >> number create a set of arrays say @array1, @array2....@array7"? > > > > You do not want to do that! > > > > Please read this > > http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html > > The honesty in the above link made my day. Very informative (yet also > very funny) read. > > Steve > -- ============================= anjan purkayastha, phd bioinformatics analyst whitehead institute for biomedical research nine cambridge center cambridge, ma 02142 purkayas [at] wi [dot] mit [dot] edu 703.740.6939
