Hash element access -dereferenced hashes

reaper9187 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everyone, I'm kinda new to perl and i was working with hashes for developing a particular application. Here goes my problem :
I have two hashes ,say (key1,value1) and (key2,value2)... What is the best possible way to associate key 1 with value 2. ( want to print them). value 1 is the key for hash 2.
I tried to to do it by using something like $hash2{$hash1{$key1}} to try to extract the value but it returns a null character but works perfectly when you plug in the scalar value of value2 instead of $hash{$key1}.

Please help ..!! thank you..

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Re: Hash element access -dereferenced hashes by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 06, 2012 at 10:10 UTC
Works for me. Note I use key1 as a string, not the undefined variable $key1. Use strict and warnings to catch this kind of problems. `%hash1 = (key1 => "value1"); %hash2 = (value1 => "Gotcha"); print $hash2{ $hash1{key1} }, "\n"; # Not $key1!` [download] Output: `Gotcha` [download] لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Hash element access -dereferenced hashes by tobyink (Canon) on Dec 06, 2012 at 10:13 UTC
Is this the kind of thing you mean? `my %hash1 = ( xxx => 'yyy' ); my %hash2 = ( yyy => 'zzz' ); print $hash2{$hash1{xxx}}, "\n"; # zzz` [download] `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Hash element access -dereferenced hashes by reaper9187 (Scribe) on Dec 06, 2012 at 11:10 UTC
Well this is embarassing ..!! i realized after writing the code that i had switched the order and the entry map{lucy} does not exist.... i suspect the problem is with the value 2 itself... update: as suspected , it was a null entry .. i tried changing the index and it works now ..thanks a lot..!!	[reply]
Re: Hash element access -dereferenced hashes by reaper9187 (Scribe) on Dec 06, 2012 at 10:35 UTC
the above codes work just fine.. dunno whats wrongs with the exp .. i'll post the code .. c if u can figure out the problem i have two defined hashes cell and map, `$a = "Lucy"; my %cell=> = ( Lucy => '12' ); my %map=> = ( 12 => '45' );` [download] i try printing it using the command `print "$cell{$map{$a}}\n";` [download] but it throws the exception-- use warnings: - use of uninitialized value within %cell in string at line...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Hash element access -dereferenced hashes by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 06, 2012 at 10:53 UTC
`syntax error at ./1.pl line 2, near "=> ="` [download] Please, post the real code. After fixing that, just switch the hashes. `$map{Lucy}` does not exist. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]