If I'm reading you right, you want to access a 2D array using textual indices. Something like this
#! perl -slw
use strict;
require 5.008; # For use constant %hash syntax.
use constant {
LONDON => 0,
PARIS => 1,
TOKYO => 2,
NEW_YORK => 3,
MILAN => 4,
SAN_PAULO => 5,
};
use constant {
FIRST_QUARTER => 0,
SECOND_QUARTER => 1,
THIRD_QUARTER => 2,
FOURTH_QUARTER => 3,
TOTAL => 4,
};
my @sales = map{
[ map{
int(rand(10000))/100
} FIRST_QUARTER .. FOURTH_QUARTER ]
} LONDON .. SAN_PAULO;
for my $city ( LONDON .. SAN_PAULO ) {
$sales[ $city ][ TOTAL ] += $sales[ $city ][ $_ ] for FIRST_QUARTE
+R .. FOURTH_QUARTER;
}
print "@{ $sales[ $_ ] }[ FIRST_QUARTER .. TOTAL ]" for LONDON .. SAN_
+PAULO;
The upside is that the constants get translated in-line which is good for efficiency. The downside is that you can't (easily) use them to generate text for display.
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