Data structures are so interesting of a brain exercise I bet, If you are comfortable around the basic ones (arrays, hashes, hashes of hashes, hashes of arrays...etc) then going ahead to making your own advanced structures is just straightforwardly possible by making combinations of these data structure types. This can be particularly useful to manipulate data in different ways.

If the order of the data matters to you and that you seek to access data sequentially then an array would be involved in building that data structure, if the order doesn't matter then a hash can be used instead.

Check Q&A->Data Structures for in more in depth information.

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In reply to Re: Best Way to Map Data by biohisham
in thread Best Way to Map Data by walkingthecow

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