It looks like we were both wrong. None of them are equivalent. ;)

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %hash; while(<DATA>){ #chomp; $hash{$_}++ for split; } $hash{''}=2; print Dumper(\%hash); print '*'x55,"\n"; my @greparr= grep {$hash{$_} > 1} sort keys %hash; print "greparr has ", scalar @greparr, " elements.\n"; my @maparr = map {$_ if $hash{$_} > 1} sort keys %hash; print "maparr has ", scalar @maparr, " elements.\n"; my @grep2 = grep {$_ if $hash{$_} > 1} sort keys %hash; print "grep2 has ", scalar @grep2, " elements.\n"; print '*'x55,"\n"; print Dumper(\@greparr); print '*'x55,"\n"; print Dumper(\@maparr); print '*'x55,"\n"; print Dumper(\@grep2); print '*'x55,"\n"; __DATA__ 0 0 teacher students teacher students nope

Output:

$VAR1 = { '' => 2, '0' => 2, 'nope' => 1, 'students' => 2, 'teacher' => 2 }; ******************************************************* greparr has 4 elements. maparr has 5 elements. grep2 has 2 elements. ******************************************************* $VAR1 = [ '', '0', 'students', 'teacher' ]; ******************************************************* $VAR1 = [ '', '0', '', 'students', 'teacher' ]; ******************************************************* $VAR1 = [ 'students', 'teacher' ]; *******************************************************

In reply to Re^4: why use a hash instead of an array by Lotus1
in thread why use a hash instead of an array by DarrenSol

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