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Re: Use Hash? Array? Still confused after all these years.by kirbyk (Friar) |
on Jul 21, 2005 at 19:33 UTC ( [id://476974]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
In general, if you want to group things for lookup, you're talking about a hash. If you want things in order, you're talking about an array.
In this case, as with many real world problems, you sort of want a little of both - you want a hash of arrays. At the top level, you want a hash keyed off of state. The value for each of these, you want a list of address information for that state - an array of addresses. Then, your printout loop looks kind of like: (Obviously leaving out some steps, like creating your filehandles and building up the data structure. But see how simple that organization makes it to deal with?) -- Kirby, WhitePages.com
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