in reply to Re^5: Hash part linking
in thread Hash part linking

what do you mean by by using the definition directly as hash keys ?

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Re^7: Hash part linking
by bobf (Monsignor) on Aug 14, 2004 at 17:50 UTC
    If a picture is worth 1000 words, maybe an example is, too:
    use strict; use warnings; my %dict = ( foo => [ 'foo', 'is', 'not', 'bar' ], bar => [ 'bar', 'is', 'not', 'foo' ] ); # push a ref to the array given by $dict{bar} onto the array given by +$dict{foo} push( @{ $dict{foo} }, \@{ $dict{bar} } ); my $wordbar = ${ $dict{foo} }[3]; # accessing the definition for bar can be done through the ref, but al +so directly print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[4], '=', $dict{$wordbar} ), "\n"; print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[3], '=', @{ $dict{ ${ $dict{foo} }[3] + } } ), "\n"; print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[3], '=', @{ $dict{$wordbar} } ), "\n" +; print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[3], '=', @{ ${ $dict{foo} }[4] } ), " +\n";
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