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Actually, it's the type of brackets - {} - that tells Perl that's it's a hash slice.

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Re: Re: (jeffa) 2Re: 1 line array to hash converter
by Sifmole (Chaplain) on Sep 21, 2001 at 22:15 UTC
    Just because your statement confused me a little:

    The type of brackets - {} - tells Perl that it's a hash.
    The @ tells Perl to use list context vs. scalar context.

    Note the difference between: 

    @hash{@array} = (1) x scalar(@array);
print join(" -- ", keys %hash), "\n";

#AND

$hash{@array} = (1) x scalar(@array);
print join(" -- ", keys %hash), "\n";

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