Re: Create a hierarchical hash from flat source

On 23/06/2011, at 10:14 AM, Scott Baker wrote: > On 06/22/2011 03:06 PM, Simon J Welsh wrote: >> On further inspection, that's not the problem at all. The problem's around >> assign_children($pid,$list,&$new); >> >> The previous line you defined $new with $new = $leaf[$pid], *copying* that node into $new. >> Thus the assign_children() call updates $new, but not $lead[$pid]. >> >> You can fix this by either assigning $new by reference ($new =& $leaf[$pid]) or by >> passing a reference to $lead[$pid] to assign_children instead of $new. > > I updated the code: > > http://www.perturb.org/tmp/tree.txt > > I still get the same output though. Only one level of depth :( You still need to pass the value by reference to assign_children(), so: $new = &$leaf[$pid]; assign_children($pid,$list,&$new); --- Simon Welsh Admin of http://simon.geek.nz/