Re: basic perl question
 

vis29 <dviswa@gmail.com> wrote:
>I am going through a perl program, i have following lines which I dont understand, please explain what those lines does and why.
>
>if (/^$hash{server}/) {
> $name="not accessible";
> }

It tests if the value in $_ (which is the default if no other value is
specified) matches the regular expression between the /.../, which in
turn specifies that the string should begin with whatever value the
element "server" in the hash %hash currently has.
If a match is found, then it assigns the text "not accessible" to the
variable $name.

jue