Not sure how to title this, since I don't know where the issue is. How come this works:

my @ary;
while ( <DATA> ) {
  chomp;
  push @ary, $_ and next if $_> 5;
  print;
}
__DATA__
3
7
9
1

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and not this:

my %hash;
while ( <DATA> ) {
  chomp;
  $hash{$_}++ and next if $_ > 5;
  print;
}
__DATA__
3
7
9
1

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The latter outputs 3791 rather than 31. I know how to get around this; for example I can change the key line to:

  $hash{$_}++, next if $_ > 5;

I just wonder what the issue is? (BTW I use strict and warnings but get no complaints.)

Thanks, once again, in advance.

dave

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