That will produce a bunch of errors.
You need to quote the key containing a period in it.
Example:
$hash{"something.withaperiod"}="some text";
This produces the expected output.
On 1/20/06, The Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have keys with periods in them:
>
> my %hash;
> $hash{something.withaperiod}="some text";
> my $something='something';
> my $withaperiod='withaperiod';
> print qq{$hash{"$something.$withaperiod"}\n};
>
>
> what will it print?
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