Re: Re: regarding hash keys

> you need to quote keys that contain \W

Seems you also need to quote keys that have leading digits followed by non-digits.


my %hash = (
     1    => 'foo', # ok
     key1 => 'bar', # ok
     1key => 'baz', # error
   );
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Re: Re: Re: regarding hash keys by DrHyde (Prior) on Sep 10, 2003 at 08:09 UTC
Not always :-) `%h = (1e3 => 'foo'); print keys %h;` [download] 1000	[reply] [d/l]