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hash to differentiate type and tokens

by sarvan (Sexton)
on Jul 13, 2011 at 10:25 UTC ( [id://914091]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

sarvan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there, I want to differentiate between the types and tokens in hash.. for e.g if i have
my $str='finding related pages on the world wide web the web'; my %hash=split(/\s+/,$str);

here, how can i get access to the tokens of hash and types of hash.. basically for duplication i need this.

for eg. "the" and "web" in $str are repeated. so in such cases tokens and types helps.

so, need to know how to use them..

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Re: hash to differentiate type and tokens
by johngg (Canon) on Jul 13, 2011 at 11:08 UTC

    I'm guessing as well but do you mean something like

    knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ perl -E ' > $str = q{finding related pages on the world wide web the web}; > $hash{ $_ } ++ for split m{\s+}, $str; > printf qq{%-10s - %d\n}, $_, $hash{ $_ } > for sort keys %hash;' finding - 1 on - 1 pages - 1 related - 1 the - 2 web - 2 wide - 1 world - 1 knoppix@Microknoppix:~$

    I hope I've guessed correctly and that this is helpful.

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

Re: hash to differentiate type and tokens
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2011 at 10:32 UTC
      Hi,

      By types and tokens i meant, if i have a word "the" multiple times in a array i need to process it as many times as it is in the array.

      But in hash it avoids duplicates by having the token of each word. if a word "the" appears six times in a hash. then type of "the" is only one. but the token of "the" is 6..

      Is it correct what i m speaking

        A hash associates one key with one value, so this is what you have in %hash

        my $str='finding related pages on the world wide web the web'; my %hash=split(/\s+/,$str); use DDS; Dump( \%hash ); __END__ $HASH1 = { finding => 'related', pages => 'on', the => 'web', wide => 'web' };
        What do you want %hash to contain?
Re: hash to differentiate type and tokens
by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Jul 14, 2011 at 01:14 UTC

    Perl has a few “tricks up its sleeve” to make some coding tasks a little easier.   For example, if you simply write, $somehash{'foo'}++, then the key associated with 'foo' will be an integer that gets incremented ... even if no such key exists previously!   Perl simply “does what you mean.”   It automagically creates a key if necessary, then increments it.   So, if you want to use a hash to count the number of occurrences of words in a string (a very common objective...)   Perl, by design, makes that trivial.

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