Re: converting scalar to an array of elements

From: AlV (skweek_at_no.spam)
Date: 02/07/04


Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:55:19 +0100

Chuckb wrote:
> I should know this but, what is the quickest way to convert a scalar value
> into an array?
> Ex: $name="Fred";
> so that
> $arrayname[0]="F";
> $arrayname[1]="r";
> $arrayname[2]="e";
> $arrayname[3]="d";

perldoc -f split

use warnings;
use strict;

my $name="Fred";
my @arrayname = split //, $name;
foreach (@arrayname)
{
   print $_, "\n";
}



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