in reply to Creating data structure from multiple pairs of information

Assuming your're not going to have repeats of dog types, you could arrange your hash as :

%dog_hash (
"Beagle" => "Type 3",
"Retriever" => "table scraps"
);

Jack

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Re^2: Creating data structure from multiple pairs of information
by Grundle (Scribe) on Feb 17, 2005 at 19:37 UTC
    Why does it matter if your dog repeats? 
    if($dog_hash{$dog_type}){
    print "dog [$dog_type] already in hash\n";
}else{
    $dog_hash{$dog_type} = $food_type;
}

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    I think that RazorbladeBidet's referral is probably the way to go if you really want to know how to hash well.
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      or

       push @{$dog{$dog_type}}, $food_type;

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      if more than one food type is possible.
      (That is, a hash of array references)
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      It's sad that a family can be torn apart by such a such a simple thing as a pack of wild dogs
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