Paul Kraus wrote: > > I am declaring my constants like this. > use constant SOURCE => "/path/folder/" > Now how would I use this constant is a print statement or any statement > for that matter. > print "$SOURCE" does not work and of course print "source" will not > work. The constant pragma creates a subroutine so that: use constant SOURCE => "/path/folder/" Is equivalent to: sub SOURCE () { "/path/folder/" } So you can use a constant created this way the same as you would use a subroutine. print SOURCE, "file.txt\n"; print SOURCE . "file.txt\n"; print "@{[SOURCE]}file.txt\n"; > I understand that this works but I do not understand what its doing and > the need for the parenthesis. > Could someone explain this statement for me. I have put <> around the > part I don't understand. > > this is part of a tied hash for Config::IniFiles. > --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > while (($k,$v) = each <%{$ini{$section}}>) The value of $ini{$section} is a reference to a hash so you have to put %{} around it to dereference the hash. perldoc perlreftut perldoc perlref John -- use Perl; program fulfillmentThread Previous | Thread Next