in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Adding and Deleting Upload File name and File
in thread Adding and Deleting Upload File name and File

Thank you for your patience and info. I got your example to work: 
@songs{@song_titles} = @song_files;

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This would place the @song_files elements as keys and the elements of @song_titles would be linked to these keys, correct? What confuses me is how it looks. It seems like it should be coded like this - since I want to make a hash 
%songs{@song_titles} = @song_files;

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moving to the deletion code that you entered above. I have been storing the song titles in a file. So if I delete one I could then print out all of the remaining values in the hash and overwrite the file correct? thanks...

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Adding and Deleting Upload File name and File
by larryk (Friar) on Dec 07, 2001 at 15:43 UTC
    the @hashname{@keys_for_the_hash} = @values_for_those_keys notation is a hash slice which you can read more about in perldoc perldata and from which I quote: 
    Entire arrays (and slices of arrays and hashes) are denoted by '@', wh
+ich works much like the word "these" or "those" does in English, in t
+hat it indicates multiple values are expected.

    @days               # ($days[0], $days[1],... $days[n])
    @days[3,4,5]        # same as ($days[3],$days[4],$days[5])
    @days{'a','c'}      # same as ($days{'a'},$days{'c'})

Entire hashes are denoted by '%':

    %days               # (key1, val1, key2, val2 ...)

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    In answer to your second question about storing the song titles in a file - yes you can just have a subroutine that dumps all of the keys to the file overwriting the old list but is there a better way (read: more convenient for you)?

    If you do not need the file to be human-readable (i.e. you don't look through it yourself) then you might consider using a DBM - basically a perl hash operating out of a file.You can read more here.

    Hope this helps, 

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