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in reply to Re: Arrow Operator Oddment
in thread Arrow Operator Oddment

Deprecated, eh? Somehow I don't get the impression that it was ever precated to begin with... :-)
   MeowChow                                   
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Re: (MeowChow) Re2: Arrow Operator Oddment
by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jun 03, 2002 at 11:09 UTC
    Can you explain that a bit for those less enlightened monks?

    I'm a bit baffled. I don't see what the problem is.
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    ($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;

      The problem is: MeowChow created a normal Array and a normal Hash:

      @l = 0..10; %h = (a => 1, b => 2);

      But then read from them as if they were a reference to an array and a reference to a hash:

      print @l->[4]; # prints 4 print %h->{b}; # prints 2

      This would be the normal way to access the array and the hash:

      print $l[4]; # prints 4 print $h{b}; # prints 2
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      Brigitte    'I never met a chocolate I didnt like'    Jellinek
      http://www.horus.com/~bjelli/         http://perlwelt.horus.at
        Thank you for clearing that up.
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        ($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;