> The attached patch stops the answer in question from using symbolic > references and instead gets to illustrate a nice use of hash slices.
+1 > I think it makes the code easier to read. I may be wrong =) I'm pretty sure I agree. Thanks, applied. (I wonder if we should add something somewhere that explains that code snippets in this version of the faq may require the most recent released version of perl as of press time.) The use of three arg open made me think about that. Its the right solution, but is relatively new. -R
