> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaushal Shriyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:25 PM
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Subject: Re: Hash Variables
>
> I am referring to perldoc perlintro
> my %fruit_color = ("apple", "red", "banana", "yellow");
>
> You can use whitespace and the "=>" operator to lay them out
> more nicely:
>
> my %fruit_color = (
> apple => "red",
> banana => "yellow",
> );
>
> I know to use the Fat Comma Operator, How can one use the
> whitespace to lay the Hash Key/Values Pair. Please explain me
> with the above example.
First, I must confess that I am unsure of the effect of not placing "apple"
and "banana" in quotation marks (but this is the place to get opinions <g>).
Taking the style from SAS macro calls, I might write:
my %fruit_color = ( apple => "red"
, banana => "yellow"
,
) ;
The Llama book states that the last comma is "harmless, but convenient". I
might be inclined to avoid it (but I need to test it):
my %fruit_color = ( apple => "red"
, banana => "yellow"
) ;
HTH,
Kevin
Kevin Viel, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow
Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
San Antonio, TX 78227
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