I decided that I would try it myself, and I have found that the code below
is correct. For a tied hash (%hash), and the variable $hashref is assigned
\%hash the following lines are equivalent:
$hashref->{key} eq $hash{key};
$hash{key} eq $hash{key};
Brad Handy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:27 AM
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> Subject: Tie and HASHREF's
>
>
> I am wondering about the use of tie with hashes and then returning a
> reference to that tied hash.
>
> If have the following code:
>
> ##--- Begin Code
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use Apache::Session::DB_File;
>
> my %session;
> tie %session, Apache::Session::DB_File, ,
> {FileName=>'/path/to/db_file', LockDirectory=>'path/to/'};
> my $hashref = \%session;
>
> ##--- End Code
>
> Is
>
> $hashref->{session_var} = session_value;
>
> the same as
>
> $session{session_var} = session_value;
>
>
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