Thanks, that cleared up a few things for me..I was quite perplexed at the thought of creating key-value pairs, with multiple values, (of course, once there's more than two, it would no longer be a technical "pair"). I mean not only does the entire concept make my brain hurt, but I thought the idea of multiple values per key sort of defeated the purpose of creating a hash altogether (not to mention the idea of how to get to each individual value and the complications arising from that).

Thinking of it along the lines as each key still only having "one" value, that "one" value being a reference to other lists (or, arrays, rather)/hashes, makes a little more sense to me, but, ultimately, still hurts my brain...oO

In reply to Re^2: join two hashes by koolgirl
in thread join two hashes by Anonymous Monk

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