I am trying to learn Perl. I have gotten to the section on lists, arrays and hashes. I read through the tutorials, perlman and perldsc. I want to make sure I understand the following snippet from one of your online tutorials. I've changed some of the values in the pairs to make my questions easier to ask. 

$rec = {
         TEXT      => "Fred loves Ethel",
         SEQUENCE  => [ 13, 27, 47, 98 ],
         LOOKUP    => { cars => 'Buick', dog = 'hound' },
         THATCODE  => \&some_function,
         THISCODE  => sub { $_[0] ** $_[1] },
         HANDLE    => \*STDOUT,
     };

print $rec->{TEXT};
print $rec->{SEQUENCE}[0];
print $rec->{LOOKUP}{"dog"};

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This is what I think the output would look like (I don't have access to a programming environment at the moment; otherwise, I'd just type stuff in and see what happens):

Fred loves Ethel
13
hound

Am I correct about the output of these print statements?

Thank you for your help as I read through these tutorials to learn Perl.

Raye Ann Whitlow

In reply to Learning about Arrays and Hashes - printing pieces of them by Anonymous Monk

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