sfryer said:
> I'm reading perldoc perlref right now and under the Function Templates
> section, I've come across something that's got me stumped. The code in
> question is as follows...
>
> @colors = qw(red blue green yellow orange purple violet);
> for my $name (@colors) {
> no strict 'refs'; # allow symbol table manipulation
> *$name = *{uc $name} = sub { "<FONT COLOR='$name'>@_</FONT>" };
> }
>
> What I'd like to know is what is the purpose/meaning of the "uc" in
> *{uc $name} on the second last line? I couldn't locate an explanation
> for it anywhere.
Wow! That's your only question from that code?
uc $name returns an uppercased version of $name.
perldoc -f uc
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