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Accessing Elements

# Assigning keys and values to a hash %department = ("Eng" => "Engineering",                "M"   => "Math",                "S"   => "Science",                "CS"  => "Computer Science",                "Ed"  => "Education",               ); $department = $department{'M'}; # Either single or double quotes# ok for the keys $school = $department{'Ed'}; print "$department\n" ; print "$school.\n"; print qq/$department{'CS'}.\n/; print qq/testing:\n/; print %department, "\n";