symŽ wrote:
Occasionally my $hash{variables} will be set to %00 Not sure why..

Um, yes. I've seen this problem many times. It usually has something to do with a line like $hash{variables}='%00';

Okay, that was out of line. Could you post some code? suaveant mentioned the possibility of a CGI script and I have seen programs behave similar to what you are describing. It's when the use the code downloaded from Elizabeth Castro's Web site companion for the awful book "Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web." In her CGI parsing code, she uses the following substitution:

$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9] [a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

[download]

Notice the space between the first two character classes? No hex characters are going to substituted. Amusingly, she's had this broken code snippet on her site for well over a year.

I don't know if this is your problem, since your question is impossible to answer (one of my variables keeps getting set to '3'. Why?). If my answer is too far off base, post some code!

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: hashes filling up with funk by Ovid
in thread hashes filling up with funk by symŽ

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