need help in perl arrays (New to perl but know TCL well)

[Anil A Kumar]

I saw some where:

my @options = ("value1!", "value2:s", "value3:s@", "value4:s%");

I would like to know what this !, @, % characters represent here?

-Anil

 

[Willem]

Anil A Kumar wrote:
) I saw some where:
)
) my @options = ("value1!", "value2:s", "value3:s@", "value4:s%");
)
) I would like to know what this !, @, % characters represent here?

They represent nothing special here. I assume that later they are
being used by some function that assigns special meaning to them.

In this case, they look very familiar to Getopt::Long.

Look at: perldoc Getopt::Long


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[Jürgen Exner]

I saw some where:

my @options = ("value1!", "value2:s", "value3:s@", "value4:s%");

I would like to know what this !, @, % characters represent here?

The first @ is a sigil to indicate that the variable options is an
array.
The others are just ordinary characters in a text.
However if e.g. you had "value3s" then the @ would indicate content of
the array variable s because the string is in double quotes. Therefore
it would have been better style to use single instead of double quotes,
because then you would not have to wonder, if the author meant the
literal s@ or maybe the variable @s.

jue

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