On May 10, Gaal Yahas said: > $varwithaweirdname = "some value"; > map { s/weird/strange/ } %::; # evidently does nothing The aliasing apparently has no effect on hashes, whether they're normal or symbol tables. (Try on %ENV.) -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/ CPAN - #1 Perl Resource (my id: PINYAN) http://search.cpan.org/ ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe