Re: bareword hash keys

Just cause I dealt with it last week, using a . also causes problems as the . gets eaten and doesn't become part of the key.

Simple example:

$var{test.dot} = "a";
print keys %var;
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prints testdot.

I know it's becuase of the dot operator but it still took my by surprise for a second.

JK

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Re^2: bareword hash keys by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 30, 2003 at 21:39 UTC
`$ perl use strict; my %var; $var{test.dot} = "a"; ^D Bareword "test" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at - line 3. Bareword "dot" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at - line 3. Execution of - aborted due to compilation errors.` [download] That's why you should use strict. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: bareword hash keys
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 30, 2003 at 21:39 UTC

$ perl
use strict;
my %var;
$var{test.dot} = "a";
^D
Bareword "test" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at - line 3.
Bareword "dot" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at - line 3.
Execution of - aborted due to compilation errors.
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use

strict

Makeshifts last the longest.

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