[SOLVED] Custom delimiter for hash in perl?

ashok.g · 01-06-2010, 01:40 AM

Can I have a custom delimiter for hash in perl?

bartonski · 01-06-2010, 07:45 AM

Do you mean the '%' sigil? If so, I don't believe that this is possible. If you mean something else, you'll have to explain a little better.

ashok.g · 01-06-2010, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bartonski

Do you mean the '%' sigil? If so, I don't believe that this is possible. If you mean something else, you'll have to explain a little better.

I think that "%" is not the delimiter for a hash.
I mean the "=>" symbol. Actually when we are defining a hash we use this symbol. I want to customize that symbol. My question is can we change that delimiter?

ashok.g · 02-01-2010, 11:33 PM

I want some more posts on this thread......

chrism01 · 02-02-2010, 01:50 AM

That '=>' is known as a 'fat comma' and you can't change it AFAIK, unless you want to explicitly use quotes (') around the hash keys.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_comma
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?fat_comma
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=471590

Perl best practice is to

Code:

use strict;
use warnings;  #  or the -w switch

and use the '=>' when declaring hash contents.