Chas. Owens wrote: > [fat comma]
it treats the thing on its left like a string if the thing on the left matches this pattern /^[-_a-zA-Z][-\w]*$/
I don't believe that pattern. So lets test: perl -wle ' $,=" => "; my %h = ( -- => "x"); print %h; ' syntax error at -e line 3, near "-- =>" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. Probably you meant the second character class to be just \w? Even then the pattern is not right: perl -wle ' $,=" => "; my %h = ( 1.23 => "x"); print %h; ' 1.23 => x -- Ruud -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
