Any Perl victims care to explain this?

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Fri Apr 5 18:59:40 EST 2002


On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 08:01 , Peter Barker wrote:

> I suggest you play around with hashes for a while OUTSIDE of Tie::DBI to
> get a feel for them. Hints:
>
> $foo{"BAR"} = 1;
> print "1 = $foo{BAR}";
[etc]

Also, try using the Data::Dumper module:

use Data::Dumper;

...

$foo{"BAR"} = 1;
print dumper(%foo);

...

My apologies for recommending you explore the DBI modules, Matthew.  
They appear to be broken, or at least display an annoyingly 
Microsoft-like attitude of trying to be smarter than the programmer.

Alex





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