[Pdx-pm] Hash question

Todd Caine tcaine at eli.net
Mon Nov 24 16:46:12 CST 2003


It's called a hash slice.

http://tlc.perlarchive.com/articles/perl/ug0001.shtml


On (Mon, Nov 24 14:00), Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > >     @SignUpInfo{keys %tmp} = values %tmp;
> 
> Now trying to put this in place I'm confused as hell.  Shouldn't this be
> 
> 	$SignUpInfo{keys %tmp} = values %tmp;
> 
> I know perl usually does the right thing with what it's handed but I 
> really don't understand the @something{} verses the $something{} here.
> Do the curly braces over-ride(?) the at-symbol? 



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