----- Original Message -----
From: "Tómas Guðmundsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Janek Schleicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Help, I suppose.
> okey, I made it a hash now. And everything works and that's nothing but
> cool!
>
> But what do I do to make it more than just the phone number so if I ask of
> Fred it shows his
> number, address, e-mail, and such ?
>
> my %phone_book = qw(
> Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0123 fred'sstreet 34
> );
> I know perl always search for the key and then returns the value but how
do
> I make the value more than one word?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janek Schleicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Help, I suppose.
>
>
> > Drieux wrote at Tue, 30 Jul 2002 02:51:27 +0200:
> >
> >
> > > On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 04:05 , Tómas Guðmundsson wrote: [..]
> > >> my $phone_book = qw{
> > ^
> > >> Fred 0123
> > >> John 4567
> > >> Bill 8901
> > >> };
> > >
> > > you might want to think of using a hash here
> > > instead of a straight array, hence
> > >
> > > my %phone_book = (
> > > Fred => 0123,
> > > John => 4567,
> > > Bill => 8901,
> > > );
> >
> > Or if you are too lazy too retype so much,
> > you can simply change the $ to a % and everything is fine.
> >
> > But note
> > 0123
> > is an octal number,
> > so when it is used as integer,
> > it's interpreted as 83.
> >
> > However, the error doesn't occur when you simply change the $ to a %
:-))
> >
> >
> > Cheerio,
> > Janek
> >
> >
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