James Edward Gray II wrote: >On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:18 AM, Jan Eden wrote: > >> I am not sure if I could store all this in one hash: > >I bet you can. I'm an optimist. ;) > >I haven't been following this thread too closely, but let's just think >about it in the general sense. What you basically has is a lot of >information about specific authors, right? Can we shove an author in a >hash? Sure: > I do not have much information about a single author, it's basically just his first and last name (which is used in different orders - John Doe and Doe, John). I used two hashes for the authors because I am lazy.
But I agree that I could use a single %authors hash instead of %authors_indexlines and %authors_headlines, where the keys consist of a combination of first and last name (converted to 7-bit without white space, as I have it now). The values would consist of references to two-element hashes (first and last name). Putting my @alphabet_index into the write subroutine, I'd be down to four variables (%authors, %gedichte, @gedicht_letters and @author_letters). The lasst two arrays are necessary and I doubt that my script would be more efficient when merging the %authors and %gedichte. But I'll fiddle some more. >Well, hopefully that'll give you some new ideas. > Always grateful for your help, jan -- Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
