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"p.s. maybe the latest perl should allow "0x41"->$* ? (tongue-in-cheek)" It does, but it doesn't work how you think it does. That's called postfix deref, and it only dereferences a reference. A string (which is what you have) is not a reference. Here's an example of using postfix deref after assigning your string to a scalar reference:
We don't often see direct scalar refs though. Makes more sense with a struct:
Which is the equivalent of the circumfix deref operator, which is by far more common (postfix deref was just released from experimental status in 5.24.0):
...or more simply as we're using the whole thing, and not just a piece of it:
In reply to Re: why are hex values not numbers?
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