im not having much success when trying to define hash keys to be hexadecimal values. i can demonstrate the problem with this small code fragment...

$hash{"\x61"} = 'a';
print $hash{"\x61"} . "\n"; #prints 'a'
print $hash{97}     . "\n"; #null output

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my naive question (not being a perlmonk) - should not the key value for $hash{"\x61"} be identical to $hash{97} - and therefore the outputs be the same? assuming, as i do that "\x61" equates to decimal 97. i do not understand why both print statements yield different outputs. i would have thought/expected that both print statements should have yielded 'a' as the output.

In reply to hash key confusion by Anonymous Monk

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