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List context and hash context

    

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my %person = (
    name  => 'Joe',
    age   => 13,
    phone => '555-1212',
    city  => 'Chicago'
);

my @data = %person;

print "list context: ", join("|", @data), "\n";
print "another way: ", %person, "\n";








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