Hi Monks,

I'm sure Perl can do this, yet searching the PODs and PerlMonks Q&A comes tantilisingly close, but not close enough. I just cant find a simple explanation/example for this.

I want to store a list of things into one element of a hash, and another list in another hash etc..

First off lets just try putting one list into one hash element: 

my @test = ( qw / bing bong bang / );
print '['.$test[2].'] ['.$test[1].'] ['.$test[0]."]\n";
$bits{'one'}= @test;
my @new =  $bits{'one'};
print '['.$new[2].'] ['.$new[1].'] ['.$new[0]."]\n";

OUTPUT:
[bang] [bong] [bing]
[] [] [3]

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Any help or explanation would be great!

Thanks, 

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In reply to A hash of lists by wolis

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