Dear Monks,
It is always at the moment I think I understand how it all fits together I'll run into an other problem. Let me give a few examples of how I think array and hash refs can be initiated: 
$hr->{a} = "hello" ; # or
@$hr{a} = "hello"  ; # doesn't work!!!
$ar->[0] = "hello" ; # or
@$ar[0] = "hello" ;  # does WORK !!!!

print "value of hr = $ar->[a]\n" ;
print "value of hr = $hr->{a}\n" ;

# or

print "value of ar = ".@$ar[0]."\n" ;
print "value of hr = ".%$hr{a}."\n" ; # doesn't work!!

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How come that hash and array refs work so different or (more likely) is it me doing something terribly wrong here ??

Thanks
Luca

In reply to A better understanding of array and hash references by jeanluca

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