On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 06:58 AM, Phillip E. Thomas wrote:
my %hash=(); my $mykey="key"; my $myval1=$myval2="test";
#store data in a hash of arrays $hash{$mykey}=[$myval1, $myval2];
Later on I want to retrieve the data and I have to do it like:
$myval1=$hash{$mykey}[0]; $myval2=$hash{$mykey}[1];
There are a lot of array values and I am looking for a more elegant way to
retrieve data, something like
($myval1, $myval2)=$hash{$mykey}; (doesnt work)
Maybe something like the following would help you. The first one simply dereferences the whole array, the second takes a "slice" of the array, with the given indexes.
($myval1, $myval2)= @{ $hash{$mykey} };
or
($myval1, $myval2)= @{ $hash{$mykey} }[0, 1];
Hope that helps.
James
I'm sure I am missing something embarrassingly simple. Any help would be
appreciated.
Phillip
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