On Nov 9, David Gilden said: >Could some explain what this is? > > @{ $records{$_} } > > is it a Array?
%records is a hash $records{$_} is a value in the hash, which is apparently a REFERENCE to an array @{ $records{$_} } dereferences that value, and returns an array -- 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]