On May 20, Nikola Janceski said: >This returns an odd number of elements: > >my %BYNAME = map { { "$ALL{$_}" => "$_" } } keys %ALL;
You've got an extra set of { } in there. The inner one makes a hash reference, so if the hash has an odd number of keys, there will be an odd number of hash references returned. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]