On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:06 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> ######################################################## > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > %states = ( "California","Sacramento", "Wisconsin","Madison", "New York", > "Albany"); > > print "Capital of California is " . $states{"California"} . "\n\n"; > > ######################################################## > > I did not understand the statement $states{"California"} in the above print > statement of the code > > I know the the dot is a concatenation operator and \n is a newline character Hi Kaushal, %states is a hash array California is a key value $states{"California"} means the value of hash($states) key(California) is Sacramento More information : # perldoc -q hash Regs, Siva