On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 17:42, Jenda Krynicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The rule for automatic quoting within $hash{...} is "if it looks like
> word, it doesn't have to be quoted". And - is not in the list of word
> characters as far as Perl is concerned.
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Not exactly. A hyphen is all
From: "Kelly Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Consider:
>
> perl -le '$hash{"foo-bar"} = 1; print $hash{foo-bar}'
> [no result]
>
> perl -le '$hash{"foobar"} = 1; print $hash{foobar}'
> 1
>
> I sort of understand this: in the first script, Perl treats foo-bar as
> a subtraction, and sets $hash{0} to
