Re: lvalue hash slice

1:32pm, IP packets from [email protected] delivered:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:07:24PM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> > I like hash slices:
> >
> >     ($one, $two, $three) = @hash{ qw/aaa bbb ccc/ };
> >
> > Sadly, this doesn't work as an lvalue:
> >
> >     @hash{ qw/aaa bbb ccc/ } = ($one, $two, $three);        # WRONG
>
> It doesn't?
>
> $ perl -wle '$one=1; $two=2; $three=3; @h{qw(a b c)} = ($one,$two,$three);  print %h'
> c3a1b2

You cannot print hash, like you can print a list. Because elements in the
hash are stored differently to optimize retrieval of hash elements.

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