Re: Module constant and constants in Hashes

I'm kind of confused here, but the perldoc for constant, says " Constants defined using this module cannot be interpolated into strings like variables.".

Why use constant? Just use a translation hash.

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Re^2: Module constant and constants in Hashes by Lya (Initiate) on Jan 14, 2009 at 15:05 UTC
What is a "translation hash"? Lya	[reply]
Re^3: Module constant and constants in Hashes by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 14, 2009 at 15:16 UTC
`#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; #But I want to have something like: #0 = Zero #1 = One #2 = Three my %hash = ( 'NULL' => "Zero", 'EINS' => "One", 'ZWEI' => "Two", ); my %trans_hash =( 'NULL' => 0, 'EINS' => 1, 'ZWEI' => 2, ); foreach (sort keys %hash ) { print "$trans_hash{$_} = $hash{$_}\n"; }` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply] [d/l]