On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Dippery, Kyle <kyle.dipp...@uky.edu> wrote:
> In my own custom lifecycle, I have one hyphenated status ("in-use"). I don't
> remember why (perhaps this is the reason), but I have it in quotation marks
> as a key in our transitions array:
>
> transitions => {
> ...
> "in-use" => [qw(allocated recycled stolen lost deleted surplussed
> destroyed-for-parts scattered-across-the-desert)],
> }
>
> Your hyphenated ones aren't quoted in your array. Perhaps that's the
> sticking point? Perl might be trying to do math with the "-" before
> assigning to it.
Guaranteed. You need to quote hash keys that contain hyphens.
-m
