#!/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @foo = (0,1); my %hash; $hash{00} = "data"; $hash{"00"} = "the real one"; $hash{10} = "moredata"; print Dumper( %hash); print '$hash{0} is ', $hash{0} , "\n"; print '$hash{00} is ', $hash{00} , "\n"; print '$hash{$foo[0] . "0"} is ', $hash{$foo[0] . "0"}, "\n"; print '$hash{$foo[1] . "0"} is ', $hash{$foo[1] . "0"}, "\n"; print '$hash{10} is ', $hash{10} , "\n";