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From: okamoto@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Would like to emulate an array of pointers to a structure
Message-ID: <12170003@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 90 16:31:23 GMT
Organization: Tendou Dojo
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I've got a question that I'm hoping some of you may be able to answer
for me.

I'm trying to do some manipulations on the password file.  What I'd like
to be able to do is to somehow be able to reference one entire line of
it with a single index value.  I know I can do this with an array of
entire password file lines, but I don't want to keep having to split
each line while searching for a particular entry (e.g., login name).

The C equivalent would be an array of pointers to a structure.  Is
there an easy (and intuitive!) method for doing what I'm trying to do?

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