Aug 262010
Hash reference in Perl
Answer:
Hash reference is something like a pointer to a hash data structure in Perl
Example:
my %hash = (
"a" => "1",
"b" => "2",
);
my $hash_ref = \%hash;
$hash{"a"} = "A";
print $hash_ref->{"a"}; # print out "A" as change in %hash also reflected in its reference
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