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On Jan 29, Jonathan E. Paton said: >> How can the param's be placed into a new hash? > >my %hash = param(); > >since param() detects whether it's in list/array/hash >context and does the Right Thing. These is no such thing as "hash context" or "array context". There is void context, scalar context, and list context. my %hash = param(); is list context, and stores only the NAMES of the fields (not their values) in %hash. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.Thread Previous | Thread Next