PERL Beginners - Re: [PBML] Perl equivalent of PHP extract()?

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Re: [PBML] Perl equivalent of PHP extract()?

Randal L. Schwartz

2006-12-17, 9:59 pm

>>>>> "Kelly" == Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> writes:

Kelly> Inside a subroutine, I want to use this hash:
Kelly> %hash = ("apple" => "red", "pear" => "green", "le@!mon" => "yellow");

Kelly> to set my($apple)="red", my($pear)="green", my($lemon)="yellow"
Kelly> [getting rid of the junk '@' and '!' chars in the key]

You really really *don't* want to do that.

If PHP has a function to do that easily, no wonder there's so many security
holes reported with PHP scripts.

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