keys is a function, it doesn't take in value

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Rothenmaier, Deane
<deane.rothenma...@walgreens.com> wrote:
> Gurus,
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> Given something like this:
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> #!Perl
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> use strict;
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> use warnings;
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> my %hash; keys(%hash) = 128;
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> print “hash has “ . scalar(keys(%hash)) . “ keys\n”;
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> I should see a printed value of 128, wouldn’t you think? But no, it prints:
> “hash has 0 keys”.  What’s up wit dat? What obvious thing am I missing?
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> Thanks,
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> Deane Rothenmaier
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