SPUG: assigning to slice of anon hash?

[David Bitseff]

This appears to work:

@$hash_ref{@fields} = @values;


El JoPe Magnifico writes:

> Quick (hopefully) perl syntax question that I ran into last night. You
> can assign to a slice of a hash with the following:

>   @hash{ @fields } = @values;

> However, I can't figure out how to do the same with a hash ref. The
> following gives a runtime error, "Can't coerce array into hash", since
> the @{$ref} construct is generally how you deref an array ref:

>   @{ $hash_ref }->{ @fields } = @values;

> And the following (which wouldn't be syntactically consistent, but I
> tried just in case) doesn't do the trick either:

>   %{ $hash_ref }->{ @fields } = @values;

> I'm using perl 5.6.1. Assistance appreciated! =) -jp


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