Re^4: Help understand why this grep does not work

well kind of ... but your code only works if the first 2 chars combinations are unique otherwise you need to push into a HoA.

I think the or-ed regex I've shown you is better, as long as @data1 is known from the beginning and doesn't change dynamically.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^5: Help understand why this grep does not work by drmrgd (Beadle) on Nov 02, 2013 at 16:46 UTC
Yes, this is why I didn't do that in the first place. Although with the data I have listed I think this would work, if I had to expand it and there weren't unique values, you're right - this wouldn't work so well. I think your 'or-ed regex' is indeed better. For the sake of argument (I'm just playing around trying to get better a handling data in Perl and the map function), what's the best way to create a hash of arrays with this data? I can't seem to create the data structure with a map. I know this won't work as it overwrites the values on each pass: `my %data_hash = map { /^(\w\s+\d)/ => [$_] } @data2;` [download] But, I can't seem to figure out how to create a hash of arrays with the map function. Maybe it's not possible or not the best way?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Help understand why this grep does not work by LanX (Saint) on Nov 02, 2013 at 16:59 UTC
OK, these ~~two~~ three possibilities seem to do it, but by far not as performant as the or-ed regex. `DB<126> %hash = map { my ($m)=/^(\w\s+\d)/; $m => [ grep {/^$m/} @da +ta2 ] } @data1 => ("a 1", [], "a 2", ["a 2 Y"], "a 3", ["a 3 R"]) DB<127> %hash = map { my $k=$_ ; $k => [ grep {/^$k/} @data2 ] } map + { /^(\w\s+\d)/} @data1 => ("a 1", [], "a 2", ["a 2 Y"], "a 3", ["a 3 R"]) DB<128> %hash = map { /^(\w\s+\d)/; $1 => [ grep {/^$1/} @data2 ] } +@data1 => ("a 1", [], "a 2", ["a 2 Y"], "a 3", ["a 3 R"])` [download] update see also Generating Hash-of-List using map? Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Help understand why this grep does not work by drmrgd (Beadle) on Nov 02, 2013 at 17:10 UTC
Very informative; thank you! This definitely starts to drift into the 'difficult to read and maintain' territory, though. You've been a big help giving me some insight on how to play around with 'map' a little more, though. Thanks again!	[reply]

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