W/r/t the question about what's $I{F}{op}--are you familiar with multidimensional data structures? This looks to be a hash of hashes, in this case. Perl implements multidimensional data structures using references--so you have a regular hash, %I, with a key called "F"; and the value of that key is a reference to another hash (a reference is a scalar, and a hash value can only be a scalar, so that works out).

So you could say: 

my $hash_ref = $I{F};

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Now you've got a hash ref in $hash_ref, and you can dereference it to see what it holds. You could now say: 
my $op = $hash_ref->{'op'};

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So, if we put those together and eliminate the temporary variable, we get 
my $op = $I{F}->{op};

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which is the same as 
my $op = $I{F}{op};

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because Perl lets you eliminate the dereferencing arrows between brackets subscripts.

Take a look at perlref, perldsc, and perllol.

In reply to Re: I just can't figure this out... by btrott
in thread I just can't figure this out... by azaidi

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