Re: Re: manipulating a hash of arrays

...which is probably pointless since hash keys are guaranteed to be unique.

Which doesn't stop him comparing them. He might be interested to see if one is a substring of the other, or maybe all the keys are numbers, and he wants to compare them to see which ones are bigger or smaller...

Huh? I was almost following you until you got to that last part.

I'm guessing a bit here, but I think he doesn't want to compare the keys if one key already "contains" the other key. Still fairly easy to do though.

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Re: Re: Re: manipulating a hash of arrays by davido (Cardinal) on Oct 16, 2003 at 04:20 UTC
I don't know what his intentions are, and would rather not jump to conclusions; it's an exercise that leads to wasted effort. I'd rather just see the question re-asked in a way that doesn't require that I guess at its meaning, only to find out later that the time taken in considering and answering the question was wasted on an errant assumption. Dave "If I had my life to do over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein	[reply]

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by davido (Cardinal) on Oct 16, 2003 at 04:20 UTC

I'd rather just see the question re-asked in a way that doesn't require that I guess at its meaning, only to find out later that the time taken in considering and answering the question was wasted on an errant assumption.

Dave

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