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Oct 10, 2004, 7:33 PM
JoFrRi
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Oct 10, 2004, 7:33 PM
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What does "->" mean? I have seen it so often in sample codes and I haven't found it anywhere under operators in the documentation. Can anyone help this poor newb out?
Oct 10, 2004, 10:20 PM
Alex
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Hi,

I'm assuming you mean in perl? If so, have a read through `perldoc perlboot`.

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Oct 11, 2004, 10:10 PM
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Oct 11, 2004, 10:10 PM
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Lol, my apologies, I should have let you guys know what language. The language I'm referring to is PHP.
Oct 11, 2004, 11:37 PM
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Oct 11, 2004, 11:37 PM
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In what context? For example, provide a line of PHP code using ->

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Oct 13, 2004, 8:41 PM
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Oct 13, 2004, 8:41 PM
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For example:

Code:

while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) ) {
while statements
}


I didn't know that it was used in more than one way. Just shows my ignorance in this topic.
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Oct 22, 2004, 3:33 PM
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Oct 22, 2004, 3:33 PM
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No ideas?
Oct 25, 2004, 2:33 PM
hennagaijin
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Oct 25, 2004, 2:33 PM
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In object-oriented PHP, the -> is used to reference either a property or a method of an object. In your example above, it's calling the sql_fetchrow() method.

You might want to take a look at the section of the PHP manual that deals with objects and classes:
http://www.php.net/.../en/language.oop.php
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Oct 25, 2004, 3:53 PM
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Oct 25, 2004, 3:53 PM
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Thanks, I'll do that.

Always nice to get some direction!