On Thu, 2006-22-06 at 01:47 +0000, Jeff Peng wrote: > > > This conversion to and fro must be inefficient and time consuming. Is > > > there a "better" way to do this? > > > >Use an anonymous array: > > > > $array{$client} = [ @field ]; > > > > @field = @{ $array{$client} }; > > > > > > Or use the array's reference as the hash's values: > > $array{$client} = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
This will not save the contents of @field, it only saves a reference to it: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @field = qw( a b c ); my $save = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; print Dumper $save; @field = qw( 1 2 3 ); print Dumper $save; __END__ An alternate notation is: @{ $array{$client} } = @field; -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>