I don't know what is "$test -> {'RecordType'} = UNKNOWN;". At first I think that is hash. but it is not hash becuase "print Dumper(\%test)" didn't operate....

My first question is What is "$test -> {'RecordType'} = UNKNOWN;". is it hash? or just define variable?? My second question is about below script. I understand why print "case 1", but I don't understand abour case 2. I think case 2 can't operate becasue ifcondition is false.. can you explain about that??

My last question is What is different between $test -> {'RecordType'} = UNKNOWN; and $test -> {'RecordType'} = "UNKNOWN";. as generally I define some value with "" but that list didn't use "" so I wonder what is different between them.

please help me... 

################## perl script #####################
$test -> {'RecordType'} = UNKNOWN;

#case 1
if($test ->{'RecordType'}){
    print "case1\n";
}

#case 2
if($test ->{'RecordType'} = KNOWN){
    print "case2\n";
}

###########################################

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2018-06-27 Athanasius added paragraph tags and fixed code tags

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