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in thread hash name as a variable?

   $HREF = eval "\\\%$DB_name";

Ouch. Please don't do that! And if you do, please check $@ afterwards since eval will trap fatal errors silently.

-sam

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Re^3: hash name as a variable?
by jeremyh (Beadle) on Sep 15, 2004 at 21:05 UTC
    Thanks - I think you just helped me solve a different problem.
    Checking $@ showed where my script was bombing.