> Here's the setup:
> I have set up a hash %categories where the key is one number and the value
> is another
> i.e. $categories('1094') = 100049-0220-14
I assume you meant (note braces and quotes):
$categories{1094} = '100049-0220-14'
otherwise the value will be 100049-0220-14 = -
"Lara J. Fabans" wrote:
> Hi, perl-friends,...
Hi Lara,
You said:
> I had a while loop to search through each of the keys & values, but the problem is
> that it doesn't break out of the while loop, and the wrong value gets set as $myID;
Look at your words, thenlook at your code:
> #while(my (
> Morning, Dan
Morning!
>
> At 11:50 AM 1/23/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > > i.e. $categories('1094') = 100049-0220-14
> >
> > do you mean $catagories{'1094'} ?
>
> Yup, I did. Never type anything in from memory :-)
I can't anyway because my memory doesn't work.
>
>
> > > value is ther
Lara J. Fabans wrote:
> Hi, perl-friends,
>
> Here's the setup:
> I have set up a hash %categories where the key is one number and the
> value is another
> i.e. $categories('1094') = 100049-0220-14
You need quotation marks here, like this:
$categories('1094') = '100049-0220-14';
othe
> Hi, perl-friends,
>
> Here's the setup:
> I have set up a hash %categories where the key is one number
> and the value
> is another
> i.e. $categories('1094') = 100049-0220-14
do you mean $catagories{'1094'} ?
>
> So, further on down, I'm trying to do a lookup in %categories
> to see i
