Scalar result from array

[packetstormer]

I am having "newbie" trouble getting my head around scalar and list contexts. The code below is returning scalar and I was hoping it wouldn't. Is it obvious what I am doing wrong?

foreach $y(@shows_to_find)
        {$show_nzb_d = $nzb_url.$y.$amp.$cat_id.$amp.$api_username_url
+.$api_username.$amp.$api_key_url.$api_key;
        
        
        @dl_nzb = push(@dl_nzb,$show_nzb_d);
        #Remove next 2 lines - just for testing
                print $dl_nzb[1];
        print "$show_nzb_d"."<br />";
                    
        
        }

So when I print second element of the dl_nzb list I get a numeric value instead of the value.

[choroba]

See push - it returns the number of elements in the target array after the push. Use it without the = assignment.

[packetstormer]

See - silly newbie error. Just using push then print the list now works as expected. Thanks!

[Generoso]

May be this is what you are trying to do?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 
use strict; 
my @shows_to_find = <DATA>;
print "Data input \n";
foreach (@shows_to_find){print;}
print "\n", '-' x (60), "\n";

my @dl_nzb = ();
my $nzb_url = 'url ';
my $amp = ' amp ';
my $cat_id = 'cat_id ';
my $api_username_url = 'url2 ';
my $api_username = 'user name ';
my $api_key_url = 'url 3 ';
my $api_key = 'key';

foreach my $y(@shows_to_find)
        { chomp($y);
        my $show_nzb_d = $nzb_url.$y.$amp.$cat_id.$amp.$api_username_u
+rl.$api_username.$amp.$api_key_url.$api_key;
        push(@dl_nzb,$show_nzb_d);
        }
foreach (@dl_nzb){print;print"\n";}
    
print "\n", '-' x (60), "\n";
__DATA__
abc dft45.xml
ert rt653.xml
abc ert57.xml

Result:

perl "C:\Documents and Settings\16916\My Documents\new  4.pl"
Process started >>>
Data input 
abc dft45.xml
ert rt653.xml
abc ert57.xml

------------------------------------------------------------
url abc dft45.xml amp cat_id  amp url2 user name  amp url 3 key
url ert rt653.xml amp cat_id  amp url2 user name  amp url 3 key
url abc ert57.xml amp cat_id  amp url2 user name  amp url 3 key

------------------------------------------------------------
<<< Process finished.
================ READY ================