if I have a variable $name, how do I get the string after the $, that is, 'name' in this case?

That's a silly question. Suppose there was a magical function that just did that. Suppose the magical function is called mushroom. Then you would have: 

    my $name_of_var = mushroom $name;
    print $name_of_var;    # prints 'name'.

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There would be no gain. You could as well have typed: 
    my $name_of_var = 'name';

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after all, if you know which variable to get the name of, you already have the name. It's like phoning someone to ask his/her phone number.

Furthermore, what if the variable is $foo {bar} () -> [3], what should this magical function return?

Abigail

In reply to Re: another 'array to hash' question by Abigail-II
in thread another 'array to hash' question by punkish

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