On Oct 22, Ted Markowitz said: >normal hashes could only take single keys. Is there some sort of >auto-concatenated key being built out of the 3 list arguments under the >covers?
Yes. The 'perldata' section of the docs should cover it, and the 'perlvar' section does. $hash{'a', 'b', 'c'} is the same as $hash{ join $;, 'a', 'b', 'c' } The default value of $; is Ctrl-\. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]