Re: [tlug] perl hashes

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

Thanks again to both of you. I've got it working. 
One thing that threw me was there was a hash being passed through many
layers of subroutines, buried in the bottom on the one the created it
was  +AFw-%foo

Brett



On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:52:13 +-0900 (JST)
Joe Larabell <larabell@?jp> wrote:

> 
> > but surely the apostrophes aren't required?
> >
> > $qhash_ref->{spam_ch}
> 
> Not if the key is easily identifiable by the parser as what perl likes to
> call a "bare word" (as it is in this case). If you wanted to have spaces
> or punctuation in your key or if you're composing a compound string like
> "$dir/$file.$ext", you need the apostrophes (or, in the compound string
> example, double quotes). And obviously, a single scalar could be put in
> place of the bare word without any quoting, like: $qhash_ref->{$key}.
> 
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