Re^2: Curious about Hashes which viewed as a list has only one item

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Thanks, errto. That was what I suspected would be the case. So do I understand correctly that if I were to do something like:

print "yep" if(defined $foo{HASH(xxx)});

then I'd not expect any print? (The xxx is the stringified octal code in the pre-stringified reference)

Also, thanks for the note on the stringified reference. I remember well (from having made the erroneous assumption quite a few times) that the key is just the stringified version of the reference and is not, itself, a referene.

Again, thanks for the info...it really helped.

ack Albuquerque, NM

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Re^3: Curious about Hashes which viewed as a list has only one item by Errto (Vicar) on Feb 29, 2008 at 17:37 UTC
Well, for one thing if you were actually writing that literally you'd have to put the HASH(xxx) bit in quotes. But you're correct, that statement would not print anything. But if you changed `defined` to `exists`, then it would print yep because that key is really present in the hash.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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