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Re: Re: Sorting hash keys according to different criteria

by Anonymous Monk
on Jun 24, 2003 at 20:57 UTC ( [id://268677]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Sorting hash keys according to different criteria
in thread Sorting hash keys according to different criteria

Hi, Can I ask why this only prints one item in the hash array?
my %people; %people =( { name => "fred", age => 31, }, { name => "bill", age => 32, }); my $length = keys %people ; print "$length\n"; foreach my $key (sort keys %people) { print("$people{$key}{'name'}: $people{$key}{'age'}\n"); }

Code tags - dvergin 2003-06-24

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Re: Re: Re: Sorting hash keys according to different criteria
by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Jun 24, 2003 at 21:46 UTC
    It's because you've mixed up a hash of hashes with an array of hashes. %people is clearly a hash; but the thing after the = is an array of two hashes. But since, in Perl, hashes are a special kind of array, Perl just took you at your word that you wanted to treat this array as a hash.

    The end result is, %people is a hash with one key-value pair: the key is { name => "fred", age => 31, } and the value is { name => "bill", age => 32, }! I know that's not what you wanted, but it's what you told Perl to do!

    You'd get the output you want with
    my @people = ( { name => "fred", age => 31, }, { name => "bill", age => 32, } ); for (@people) { print "$_->{'name'}: $_->{'age'}\n"; }
    By the way, to make your posts easier to read, you can enclose your code with <code> tags!

    § George Sherston

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