I am ready to tear my hair out. I have been debugging for 5 hours now and I have found the bug in my morass of code, but I don't understand why it is occuring...
Here is a sample script that demonstrates the bug.
My element 00 in $hash doesn't print when I know it is there. I want to believe this is a perl bug, but I suspect it is really my not understanding how 00 is getting evaluated or something.
@foo = (0,1);
$hash{00} = "data";
$hash{10} = "moredata";
print '$hash{00} is ', $hash{00} , "\n";
print '$hash{$foo[0] . "0"} is ', $hash{$foo[0] . "0"}, "\n";
print '$hash{$foo[1] . "0"} is ', $hash{$foo[1] . "0"}, "\n";
print '$hash{10} is ', $hash{10} , "\n";
The results are:
NOTE LINE 2 after is there is nothing!
$hash{00} is data
$hash{$foo[0] . "0"} is
$hash{$foo[1] . "0"} is moredata
$hash{10} is moredata
What is going on?
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