Re: Re: Active State Perl 5.6.1 build 626 Trashes hashes.

i made the asumption that a pointer to a hash was not treated the same as a hash. That is,$a->{'fish'} and $a{'fish'} are these the same?If not how can I reference and deeferene both. (i.e. </CODE>$a=\{}<CODE>)

Comment on Re: Re: Active State Perl 5.6.1 build 626 Trashes hashes. Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Re: Active State Perl 5.6.1 build 626 Trashes hashes. by runrig (Abbot) on Aug 08, 2001 at 23:30 UTC
First take a trip through 'perldoc perldata'. `$a->{'fish'}` is dereferencing the hash reference `$a`. `$a{'fish'}` is referencing an element of the hash `%a`. They are two different things using two different variables, `$a and %a`. And get ready to re-learn all this when Perl 6 comes around :-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]