After you read it in from a file do you chomp (@list_names)? If you don't then there is a "\n" on the end that the hash function will see and say that there is no data associated with that key. Perl Windows may automatically ignore this I don't know.
Matt Schneider Programmer/System Administrator SKLD Information Services, LLC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Perl-unix-users] Hash in win and Unix Ok, for those of you that ask for an example: in windows I read a file and store as hash, let's say %gen. @keys=%gen; print $keys[0];#will produce the rigth thing, 'At1G0100' But if in Unix I read a list from a file, let's say @list_names print $list_names[34];# will produce 'At1G0100', and print $gen{$list_names[34]}; #won't work, again not in unix but fine in windows. print $gen{$keys[0]};# it will work fine, printing the contents of the hash. Thanks for the interest. Pablo T. _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
