Re: Dereferencing a Hash of Arrays

[philipbailey]

in reply to Dereferencing a Hash of Arrays

Your problem is that the values in hashes can only be scalars in Perl. However references are scalars, so you can use references to arrays:

my %alphabet = (
    a => \@atags,
    b => \@btags,
);

say for values %alphabet;

[toro]

Hi Philipbailey, I tried that earlier but man perlref told me I could abbreviate that as my alphabet = \(.... Are they not the same?