Re^2: Dereferencing a Hash of Arrays

input:

my @atags = qw( 1 2 3 4 );
my @btags = qw( 9 8 7 6 );

my %alphabet = (
     'a' => \@atags,
     'b' => \@btags,
             );


say for @{values %alphabet};
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output:


Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
    ./concat.pl line 9 (#1)
    (F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs".  Symbolic
    references are disallowed.  See perlref.
    
Uncaught exception from user code:
    Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use 
+at ./concat.pl line 9.
 at ./concat.pl line 9
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Re^3: Dereferencing a Hash of Arrays by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 14, 2011 at 17:47 UTC
From `perldoc values`: (In a scalar context, returns the number of values.) You'll see the error to which I alluded if you print the keys of the hash.	[reply] [d/l]