Re: Re: Removing whitespace

actually, the poster specified (my code tags for clarity) $user = $ENV {'Mike', 'Wallace'};, which is not a valid way to recover a single key from %ENV.

either he's looking for an array of environment vars (not likely), in which case he'd specify @ENV, or he's looking for a key named Mike', 'Wallace (which is valid on Win32,) which is referenced by $ENV{'Mike\', \'Wallace'}. NOTE: this is platform specific--i can't find a way to set an environment variable with quotes on solaris or cygwin.

either way, Anonymous Monk probably meant what you said.

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Re: Re: Re: Removing whitespace by Molt (Chaplain) on May 07, 2002 at 14:10 UTC
It is a valid way, and is Perl's way of doing 'Multidimensional hashes' without hitting hashes of hashes. Admittedly $; isn't normally space, but such is. In Programming Perl 2nd Ed this is all on Page 133, my 3rd Ed. is at home at the moment I'm afraid so I can't give page reference in that. The following code actually works.. which is somewhat scary when it's simply not What You Mean, as I don't think it is in this case. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $ENV{'Paul', 'Golds'} = 'Molt'; print $ENV{'Paul', 'Golds'};` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Re: Removing whitespace
by Molt (Chaplain) on May 07, 2002 at 14:10 UTC

It is a valid way, and is Perl's way of doing 'Multidimensional hashes' without hitting hashes of hashes. Admittedly $; isn't normally space, but such is.

In Programming Perl 2nd Ed this is all on Page 133, my 3rd Ed. is at home at the moment I'm afraid so I can't give page reference in that.

The following code actually works.. which is somewhat scary when it's simply not What You Mean, as I don't think it is in this case.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$ENV{'Paul', 'Golds'} = 'Molt';
print $ENV{'Paul', 'Golds'};
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