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$player = "Sharapova";

%player_country = (
Venus => "USA",
Sharapova => "Russia",
Serena => "USA",
);
print "$player represents : ";
print $player_country{"$player"};
print "\n";

@players = keys %player_country;
@values = values %player_country;

print "@players[0..$#players]\n";
print "@values[0..$#values]\n";

in the above program @values array holds all the values in the hash.
again values is a keyword used to retrieve values from hashes. how the
perl interpreter handles it ???

asit <> wrote:
>in the above program @values array holds all the values in the hash.
>again values is a keyword used to retrieve values from hashes. how the
>perl interpreter handles it ???

Trivial: different name spaces.
%values, @values, $values, values() can easily separeted by the sigil
resp. where/how they are used in an expression.

jue