Greetings Brothers! Got a weird one for you.

I'm doing some testing, and basically I'm wanting to enter a hash at the command line, like this: 

./test.pl r,2,g,2,w,1

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And so I do this in my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Data::Dumper;
my $arg = shift;
my %actualhash = eval $arg;
print Dumper \%actualhash;

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And indeed, for the argument given above, it gives this result: 
$VAR1 = {
          'w' => 1,
          'r' => 2,
          'g' => 2
        };

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So everything is fine and dandy, right? However, I've discovered that if I try to use a 'q' as a hash key the program yields: 
./test.pl r,2,g,2,w,1,q,1
$VAR1 = {};

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So in short--what is up with that? Hepl!

In reply to eval doesn't like the letter 'q'? by rastoboy

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