in reply to Swapping Two Hash Values

The simplest way I know to swap values for hash keys is with a slice: @hash{ 'foo', 'bar' } = @hash{ 'bar', 'foo'};

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Re: Re: Swapping Two Hash Values
by sauoq (Abbot) on May 28, 2003 at 00:53 UTC
    The simplest way I know to swap values for hash keys is with a slice:

    That's what he tried to do. He just got the syntax wrong.

    Cody, instead of 

    $hash{$item,($item -1)} = $hash{ ($item -1), $item};

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    try 
    @hash{$item, ($item - 1)} = @hash{($item - 1), $item};

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    Pay careful attention to the sigils. You have to use an @ to specify a slice.

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