Net ftp wrapper return array within array 2

[cdlvj]

Developing a class around net::ftp for doing alternate servers, retries etc.

What is the easiest way to resolve a return on $ftp->dir which returns a array within an array?

## return looks like this
my @list=$ftp->dir;

@list = (
          [
            "total 104",
            "drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        512 Feb 20 12:09 .",
            "drwxrwxrwx   7 root     root        1024 Nov 22 10:13 ..",
            "-rw-r-----   1 root     root      22536 Nov 22 10:59 Holdings.txt",
            "-rw-r-----   1 root     root      22536 Nov 22 10:59 new.txt",

          ]
        );

I simply want to return an array with the two elements Holdings.txt and new.txt.

 

[KevinADC]

what do you mean by resolve?

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[cdlvj]

The question is how do you get at the stuff between the brackets.

@a = $list[0]; does not work.

 

[KevinADC]

@a = @{$list[0]};



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[cdlvj]

Mucho gratis.

Any reference

http://www site

or books that speak of this?

 

[MillerH]

Any reference

http://www site

or books that speak of this?

Yes, Perldoc on complex data structures:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perldsc.html#ARRAYS-OF-ARRAYS-array-of-arrays-AoA