assigning hash to a scalar

[Sunita Rani Pradhan]

Hi All

 

I have following set of code (just assign a hash to a scalar) :

 

chomp($input = <STDIN>);

%input = split (/\s+/,$input);

$var = %input;

Print "value: : $var\n";

 

 

Input : orange 12 apple 23 pinnaple 78

Output : 3/8    --> What does this output  mean ?

 

 

Thanks

Sunita