Re: Swapping Two Hash Values

I think someone has to ask: why aren't you using an array for this? You are basically implementing an array on top of a hash anyway by using the hash keys as indexes.

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Re: Re: Swapping Two Hash Values by Cody Pendant (Prior) on May 28, 2003 at 00:56 UTC
I'm not using an array because I'm not very smart, but thanks for pointing it out. I was just pondering data structures, really. If I had some much more complex structure, possibly read out of XML in such a way that it just had to be a hash, I might have wanted to deal with `%hash{ array => [foo,bar,baz], bunchofotherstuff => [array [hash{ array[ ] } ], order => 1 }` [download] But don't I get a point for knowing it was stupid? More importantly, I've grasped something about playing with hash values, and I've proved that my instincts about perl having a smart way to do stuff like that were right. -- “Every bit of code is either naturally related to the problem at hand, or else it's an accidental side effect of the fact that you happened to solve the problem using a digital computer.” M-J D	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Swapping Two Hash Values
by Cody Pendant (Prior) on May 28, 2003 at 00:56 UTC

I was just pondering data structures, really. If I had some much more complex structure, possibly read out of XML in such a way that it just had to be a hash, I might have wanted to deal with


%hash{
  array => [foo,bar,baz],
  bunchofotherstuff => [array
    [hash{
       array[
         ]
      }
   ],
  order => 1
}
[download]

But don't I get a point for knowing it was stupid? More importantly, I've grasped something about playing with hash values, and I've proved that my instincts about perl having a smart way to do stuff like that were right.
--

“Every bit of code is either naturally related to the problem at hand, or else it's an accidental side effect of the fact that you happened to solve the problem using a digital computer.”
M-J D

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