On Jun 19, mark crowe (JIC) said:
>I wonder if anyone can help me with a question based more on curosity than a
>desperate need to know. Say I have a data file with one key/value pair on
>each line, which I want to read into a hash. I've been doing it in one of
>two ways:
>
> while (<>) {
> ($key, $value) = split;
> $hash{$key} = $value;
> }
>
>or
>
> push @array, split while <>;
> %hash = @array;
It's better for memory if you do it one-at-a-time, but if you'd really
like a one-liner, I'd use:
%hash = map split, <>;
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