Re: Passing hash names in a file

Well clearly it's a bad idea to have variable names which are words in some human language. Instead, have a two-level hash, in which the top-level key is the word. E.g.

    my %trans; # a translation table.
    $trans{'current'} = {
        eng => 'Current',
        ca => 'Courant',
        . . .
    };
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Then to get the list of all the words in the glossary, you'd just take the keys of the hash, i.e. @glossary_words = keys %trans;

jdporter
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Re: Re: Passing hash names in a file by heezy (Monk) on Dec 09, 2002 at 20:32 UTC
True it would be a lot better to impliment it that way but this file is referenced but quite a few scripts that I do not have control over and so I can not change the structure of the data within glossary.pl Can you suggest how I could obtain the names of the hashes without changing the strcture of the data? Thanks for your comments so far M	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Passing hash names in a file by jdporter (Paladin) on Dec 09, 2002 at 20:35 UTC
In that case, I'd probably use `grep` (the external unix command), or its half-witted Windows cousin, `find`. jdporter ...porque es dificil estar guapo y blanco.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Passing hash names in a file by demerphq (Chancellor) on Dec 09, 2002 at 23:14 UTC
Now now dont be like that. :-) grep is available from the Cygwin distro for those that don't like findstr. --- demerphq my friends call me, usually because I'm late....	[reply]