>>>>> "ZL" == Zhuang Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ZL> Hi, given an array: @a = ('E1', 'E2', ..., 'En'); ZL> Is there an easy way, hopefully one liner, to do the following without a ZL> loop? If not, will Perl support this in Perl 6? ZL> $hash->{E1}->{E2}->...->{En} = 1; i think perl6 plans to have a way to do this. there is a dim operator to set dimensions. so it would be something like this: %hash{ dim @a } or is $hash has a hash ref: $hash{ dim @a } i cc'ed p6l so i can/will be corrected. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org