Thanks. That's what I thought it was doing but wasn't sure. Mathew
John W. Krahn wrote: > Mathew Snyder wrote: >> my $timeworked = {}; > > In this context they represent an anonymous hash, the reference of which is > assigned to the scalar variable. It is usually not necessary because of > autovivification. > > > John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/