Hi, On 29.12.2020 20:52, Bernhard Bitsch wrote: > >> ... > > First just an excuse. I wrote 'hash tag' without thinking thoroughly about the term. ;) > I meant 'hash key'. If this key consists of just one word ( no spaces ) it is sufficient just to use this word as key. > Your example uses a string with spaces, thus you must "stringify" the key. Ok, got it. >> But at the risk of sounding silly: I still got translation and >> designation(?) problems, sorry. >> >> Hash tag = '$Lang::tr{'update'}'!? >> >> Stringifying = ??? >> > > See above. In case of translation hash %Lang::tr many keys are composed of several words, requesting the string representation 'this is a key'. > The example > value = '$Lang::tr{'update'}' > could also read > value = '$Lang::tr{"update"}' > not using the same delimiters for the string update. > Remember, a regex automaton usually doesn't count, thus it cannot distinguish start and end delimeters. The second ' is treated as the end of the string. > > Hope, this makes my suggestion a bit clearer. Yep. Thanks a lot. ;-) I hope I can remember this next time... Best, Matthias P.S.: I know, why I have specialized on hardware - software is more complicated. ;-)