On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 03:34 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Not used hashes before - stuck to simple arrays.. (unix shell scripting
> background)
the good news is that perl has 'associative arrays' of
the form
my %hash;
....
$hash{$key} = $val;
the bad news is that they will drive you insane for an
arbitrary amount of time - as you wander around playing
with which way to do the 'stuffing'.
may I recommend that you wrap your head around
perldoc perlref
so that you have a frame work within which to deal with
the sorts of things you can/should stuff into hashes...
Since remember that
$hash{$key}
is 'in a scalar context'....
ciao
drieux
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