You might want to look at
Tie::DxHash. I think this does what you want. Tie::IxHash only allows one value per key -
Tie::DxHash allows duplicate keys although the documentation is not so good.
Untested code:
use strict;
use Tie::DxHash;
my %foo;
tie %foo, 'Tie::DxHash';
%foo = qw ( one 1.2
one 1.6
one 1.9
two 2
three 3 );
my @keys = keys %foo;
print "@keys\n";
# if @keys only has each key once, try this:
foreach my $key (@keys)
{
print "$key, " foreach ($foo{$key})
}
Try it and see what happens - if it doesn't work, you might want to take another look at what you're doing and see if you can do whatever you're trying to do. Perhaps maintain a seperate count every time you add\delete a value.
Update: You don't really need a module to do this. Have a look at
perldsc. You can create a type of hash that allows multiple values - a hash of arrays - i.e. each hash key points to an anonymous array. It would look like this:
%hash = ( one => [1.2, 1.6, 1.9],
two => [2],
three => [3]);
Look into
perldsc anyway because I think this is best method.
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