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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: associative arrays?
Message-ID: <19469@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 90 04:05:48 GMT
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Information Center; SRI International
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I'm fuzzy on the concept of associative arrays, and although I haven't
looked deeply, haven't found a definition in any of the texts I've looked
into. 

What I'm trying to do is simulate a two dimensional array, like so:

@space[$fileserver,$user]=`rsh $fileserver du -s \
	/export/home/$fileserver/$user`


On another topic, is there any way to do something like:

foreach $machine ('fs1','fs2','fs3') { @$machine[$i++]=`rsh $machine users`; }
				       ^^^^^^^^^
					offending statement.

Simple questions?

--Chan
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