Each pair has a key, the <dt> tag, and a value, the <dd> tag.
<html><head><title>Dictionary Lists</title></head> <body> Flintstone <dl> <dt>father</dt> <dd>Fred</dd> <dt>mother</dt> <dd>Wilma</dd> <dt>child</dt> <dd>Pebbles</dd> <dt>pet</dt> <dd>Dino</dd> </dl> </body> </html>
will look like:
Flintstone
%flintstone = ( "father" => "Fred", "mother" => "Wilma", "child" => "Pebbles", "pet" => "Dino", )
To retrieve the value of a key:
print "$flintstone{"pet"}\n";
will print:
Dino