I am writing the code in BBEDIT, a text editor, and then running it from the command line as an argument to the perl executable. All of my scripts run fine if I don't have any comments before, or in, the code.
an example:
%sushi = (
inari => "tofu",
maguro => "tuna",
ika => "squid",
tamago => "omelet",
sake => "salmon");
@english = values(%sushi);
@japanese = keys(%sushi);
foreach (@english) {
($japanese,$english) = each(%sushi);
print ("$english => $japanese\n");
}
runs just fine, but if I add the line:
# script to swap keys and values in a hash
to the beginning, no go. The first thing I tried, thinking it was an end of line problem, was adding a semicolon to the end of my comment lines, but still no change. If I put that same comment line, no semicolon, at the end of the script, it runs just fine.
I am using Perl 5.6.0, which is what this machine came with.
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[d/l] |
Sorry, not much experience on MAC OSX, I cant see how this could be happening..
Just wanted to tell you you can reverse a hash quite easily using 'reverse' (since a hash in list context is just a list containing key,value,key,value etc.. so:
%reversedsushi = reverse(%sushi);
;)
C. | [reply]
[d/l] |
DOH!!! oh my god.
I'm quite sure our instructor is loving the torturous paths all of his students are taking to get such simple things done.
many thanks!
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BTW - when I posted the original query I was signed in, but it posted as anonymous. I'm actually CTP, not anonymous :) | [reply] |