in reply to Re: Help - I'm a C programmer
in thread Help - I'm a C programmer

Would you point me in the right direction to understand the %$ and the $$? I looked in my "Programming Perl" book but didn't find anything.

Thanks,
tl

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Re: Re: Re: Help - I'm a C programmer
by marcink (Monk) on Jun 18, 2001 at 00:51 UTC
    The %$hashref construct is just a shortcut for %{ $hashref }. $$hashref{$key} is similar, just takes a single value from hash.

    -mk
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