hash

This is a small Perl 5.10 tip. You can use named capture buffers to fill a hash. Before 5.10 you needed to ‘unpack’ the values from a regex match into a hash. I will give a small example that shows the problem this creates. my $str = "name=value"; my %result; if ($str =~ m/(\w+)=(\w+)/) { $result{name} = $1; $result{value} = $2; } The problem with this is that you need to number the variables and assign each individually to the hash....