On Jan 21, Bob Showalter said: >=> only quotes a bareword that is a legal identifier name, with >an optional leading minus sign. Key1 in your example qualifies, so >there is no need to quote it. Something like "First Name", or >"123" doesn't qualify, so they need to be quoted.
123 does not require quoting, because it is a valid numeric literal. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
