Re: lvalue hash slice
Uri Guttman <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "GY" == Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> writes: GY> I like hash slices: GY> ($one, $two, $three) = @hash{ qw/aaa bbb ccc/ }; GY> Sadly, this doesn't work as an lvalue: GY> @hash{ qw/aaa bbb ccc/ } = ($one, $two, $three); # WRONG works fine for me. perl -le '@h{ qw/aaa bbb/ }= (3, 5);print join ",", values %h' 5,3 where did you get the notion that hash slices won't work as an lvalue? any list (of lvalues) can be an lvalue and a slice is just syntactic sugar for the same list expanded out. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org Damian Conway Class in Boston - Sept 2003 -- http://www.stemsystems.com/class