APM: creating a hash

[Goldilox]

Doh!

OK, I'll go hide now.

Rhett

ian at skylist.net writes:
>On 4/4/03 5:49 PM, "Goldilox" <Goldilox at teachnet.edb.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble getting a hash to see everything like I want it too.
>> I need some hash values to have single quotes around them, for example
>> so I try this:
>> 
>> %stypes={"'RA'"=>"Rainfall",
>> "'ST'"=>"Stage and Flow"
>> };
>> 
>> Error: Reference found where even-sized list expected
>> 
>> I've created a reference?
>> 
>
>Yes, you've created a reference.  The curly brackets make it a hash
>reference, so what you actually want is parentheses, like this:
>
>> %stypes=("'RA'"=>"Rainfall",
>> "'ST'"=>"Stage and Flow"
>> );
>
>It's a common mistake - I've been writing perl for years and still do that
>every now and then. :)
>
>
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