Hello Monks,
I've been writing some Perl to automate reports and other documents at my workplace. Not terrific at Perl... yet, and so I have a question about a array type declaration. $'s are for regular old variables, @'s are for arrays, O.K. fine and good. In my perl wanderings however, I've come across some sort of command that seems to be an array of some type but that is declared with a % sign.
For instance:
my %seen_before = ();
What sort of thing is this? It seems to be very useful from all the code snippets I've looked at, but percent signs don't search well on google and I'm coming up short trying to figure out just what a my %something is.
Thanks in advance!