> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 3:17 PM > To: Bob Showalter > Cc: 'Dean Theophilou'; Perl_beginner (E-mail) > Subject: RE: The => in Hashes > > > On Jan 21, Bob Showalter said: > > >=> only quotes a bareword that is a legal identifier name, with > >an optional leading minus sign. Key1 in your example qualifies, so > >there is no need to quote it. Something like "First Name", or > >"123" doesn't qualify, so they need to be quoted. > > 123 does not require quoting, because it is a valid numeric literal.
Of course, how stupid of me. In this case it is silently converted to a string. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
