"Ken Y. Clark" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Drew Taylor wrote:
>
> > I have a question about data structures. Currently, I am doing SQL
> > queries and returning an array ref and a hash ref. The array is to
> > preserve order, and the hash contains various bits of data about that
>
> not to be dense, but can't you just issue an "order by" clause as part of
> your SQL statement?
I do that already. But hashes don't preserve order on their own,
otherwise I'd just use that alone. The array keeps things in the proper
order, and the hash stores data about each individual record.
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