Re: [perl #7213] [PATCH] Updating example in perldata

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:42:32PM -0400, Casey West wrote:
> http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=7213
> --- perl-current.orig/pod/perldata.pod  Mon Mar  4 04:18:27 2002
> +++ perl-current/pod/perldata.pod       Thu Apr 24 20:35:56 2003
> @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@
>  
>      foreach (@array[ 4 .. 10 ]) { s/peter/paul/ } 
>  
> -    foreach (@hash{keys %hash}) {
> +    foreach (values %hash) {
>          s/^\s+//;           # trim leading whitespace
>          s/\s+$//;           # trim trailing whitespace
>          s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g;   # "titlecase" words

The problem is you're no longer demonstrating that the results of a hash
slice is an lvalue.

Maybe:

      foreach (@hash{qw/title subtitle/}) {

(still not a great example)

Tony

• [perl #7213] [PATCH] Updating example in perldata by Casey West
• Re: [perl #7213] [PATCH] Updating example in perldata by Tony Cook
• Re: [perl #7213] [PATCH] Updating example in perldata by Casey West
• Re: [perl #7213] [PATCH] Updating example in perldata by Rafael Garcia-Suarez