Re: Accessing hash On May 28, 11:35 am, jeevan.ing...@gmail.com (Jeevs) wrote: > @hashi = @hash{qw (jeevan, sarika)}; > print @hashi; > > this gives me the values of keys jeevan and sarika.. how does this > work ... ok i got it ... and I think i was not clear in my query... I was expecting an hash slice to be %hash{qw(jeevan sarika)} which seems more logical as i said earlier... WEll i was browsing for more information and found out it has been taken care of in perl6 :) where a new operator (qoute word) is introduced <> instead of qw() in perl5. u can write the above hash as @hashi = %hash; print @hashi; and u can get the same output as above... --  To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/