I have many pieces of sorted data to use like below:

['US', 23, 'Andy', 'adress....' ]
['CA', 34, 'White', '........'  ]
.....
.....
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I'd like to crate a structure like c struct to be self description of every element meaning:

struct test{
char* state;
int   age;
char* name;
...
...
};
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In this case, I think a hash is not appropriate because

• hash is unsorted, but the order of elements of data is fixed
• I will never pick some elements in a struct to use. Every time, I manipulate a whole struct as a piece of data, copy, delete, print etc.
Now, my way is to add a comment to show sequence of elements by the end of statement:

my @struct = ()  #(state, age, name, ....)
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But I'd like to know if there is a better way to reach this. Thanks




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In reply to Re^2: c-like struct? by xiaoyafeng
in thread c-like struct? by xiaoyafeng

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