on Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:45:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tómas guðmundsson) wrote:
>> But what do I do to make it more than just the phone number so if >> I ask of Fred it shows his number, address, e-mail, and such ? >> >> my %phone_book = qw( >> Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0123 fred'sstreet 34 >> ); >> I know perl always search for the key and then returns the value >> but how do I make the value more than one word? Use a hash of hashes: my %phonebook = ( Fred => { EMAIL => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', NUMBER => '0123', ADDRESS => 'fred\'sstreet 34', }, ); which you can access with $phonebook{Fred}->{EMAIL} #etc -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]