Re: Single quotes inside variable names

Note that the ' to :: translation can trip you up in surprising places:

%foo = (a'b => "foo");
$foo{c'd} = "foo";
print join "," keys %foo;
__END__
a::b,c::d
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Re^2: Single quotes inside variable names by japhy (Canon) on Aug 12, 2005 at 18:20 UTC
I find it's more irksome in a situation like `print "You have $person's property!"` Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply] [d/l]