Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi all, > > While writing some tests, I ran into something that took me quite a > while to troubleshoot. Although I figured out the problem, I don't > understand why the problem is occurring. > > Can someone point out the importance of the brackets in which '2' > prints, but '1' does not? I've always thought that the brackets could be > omitted: > > print "1" if ref $href =~ /HASH/; > print "2" if ref($href) =~ /HASH/;
... is it because ref() is trying to work like this?: ref ($href =~ /HASH/); Steve
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