As you pointed out yourself, it looks just as crazy in C. In C, and probably several other languages, people tend not to write such deep structures (in my experience anyway), if you don't like it in Perl, why do it there then? Whats stopping you from having a hash called Locations, in which you store the location names (ids, or whatever they were), and another hash called Buildings in which you store the cost? (Plus a third one that tells you which Building is at which Location).

Oops, strange, that's how I'd do it were I using a database..

Nothing says you have to put all your data in one huge data structure. Your idea sounds like a nice one, until you realise the restrictions, and that its an elaborate way of getting around not using a DB or a DB-like structure. Theres no need to use a huge DB just use SQLite or something?

C.

In reply to Re: Dotted hash access by castaway
in thread Dotted hash access by sfink

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