Kudos for the neat example and the very organized code you write, keep up that practice. You've come to the right place, here you will learn by example, and not only text-book examples, we're talking real Perl situations met daily by monks scattered all over the globe here. I learnt a lot by hanging around the place.

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Make sure you've identified with the various ways to create/access and manipulate hashes and arrays before going the extra miles into references and advanced data structures. That way it becomes easier and quicker to grab the concept quickly. The Monastery is brimful of timeless resources for you to look at, for example : And then you have %perldoc perlcheat from your command line to serve as a quick primer.. Have a nice Perl journey...

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In reply to Re: Printing out a hash in specified format by biohisham
in thread Printing out a hash in specified format by Anonymous Monk

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