From: Andrea Holstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Here is a basic question on %ENV hash. I gave a pronto statement as thus:
> >
> > perl -e "print $ENV{ComputerName};"
> >
> > and it printed the correct information.
> >
> > On my MS-DOS prompt when I gave the SET command, I noticed that the
> > environmental variable for ComputerName to be denoted as COMPUTERNAME
> > (all-upper case). I am wondering how I am getting the right answer when I
> > gave the hash key as 'ComputerName' and not as 'COMPUTERNAME' as Hash Keys
> > are case-sensitive.
> >
> > Is there an implicit case-casting going on underneath?
>
> Yes, but not in perl.
> It's DOS which is case-insensitive.
Well ... wrong. Even the %ENV is case insensitive in Perl when running
under Windows.
Try
print $ENV{paTH},"\n";
print $ENV{path},"\n";
print $ENV{PATH},"\n";
> Greetings,
> Andrea
>
> PS: The best is of course, to check case sensitivity with fOrMaT c:.
> Then there's enough space for an operating system :-)
Ha ha ha ... :-}
Jenda
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