What the heck actually happens in a perl section?

Hi again, I'm still beating my head against perl sections. Using PerlSetVar inside $Location seems really flaky - constants work, variables vanish. And using $Location{$key} = {...} causes odd spurious multiple-matching behaviour from a single matching hit. Frankly, I'm at a loss. I'm about

RE: What the heck actually happens in a perl section?

-Original Message- From: Thomas K. Burkholder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 6:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What the heck actually happens in a perl section? Hi again, I'm still beating my head against perl sections. Using PerlSetVar

Re: What the heck actually happens in a perl section?

Geoffrey Young wrote I'm surprised that this works at all... what's in @kv at this point? if it's only two values then it might work if there is some magic behind the scenes, but generally you can't store references in PerlSetVars without having them stringified. Maybe PerlAddVar would