Re^3: Hash Syntax Question


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Re^3: Hash Syntax Question

by FunkyMonk (Chancellor)

on Jul 25, 2007 at 21:35 UTC ( #628812=note: print w/replies, xml )

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And, if there's nothing in the string to interpolate, perl changes the double quotes to single quotes:

zippy:~/scripts$ deparse -e '$h{q[one]} = 1; $h{qq[two]} = 2; $x = q[t
+hr]; $h{qq[${x}ee]} = 3;'
$h{'one'} = 1;
$h{'two'} = 2;
$x = 'thr';
$h{"${x}ee"} = 3;
-e syntax OK
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Re^4: Hash Syntax Question
by Joost (Canon) on Jul 25, 2007 at 21:48 UTC

Probably not much more than analyzing a single-quoted string for \' escapes though, since you'd only have to test for the sigils.

update: what I mean to say is, all this stuff is done at compile-time - i.e. normally, it's done only once per string; when the code is loaded. It has no impact at all after that. Run-time perl has no distinction between single and double quoted strings - it all compiles to a fixed string (for constant strings) or a number of concatenation operations on variables and constant strings (for interpolations).

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