A hash question

arkturuz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings!

For example, I have a list of 5 numbers (/proc/loadavg actually) and I want to store them in a hash %load so that the first load is stored in %load{'ONE'}, second in %load{'FIVE'}, third in %load{'FIFTEEN'}. The rest is discarded.

So, is there a simple way to store a list to a hash which has predefined keys?

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Re: A hash question by salva (Canon) on Dec 19, 2005 at 14:47 UTC
`my @loadavg = (0.00, 0.73, 2.86, 1/102, 32469); my %load; @load{qw(ONE FIVE FIFTEEN)} = @loadavg;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: A hash question by arkturuz (Curate) on Dec 19, 2005 at 14:59 UTC
Hm, why didn't I came with that? I am becoming slow... Too much alcohol :-) Thnx, perl being :-) BTW, shouldn't the last line be like: `@load{qw(ONE FIVE FIFTEEN)} = (@loadavg[0,1,2]);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: A hash question by salva (Canon) on Dec 19, 2005 at 15:02 UTC
Both ways are valid. The assignment operator silently ignores the extra values.	[reply]
Re^4: A hash question by arkturuz (Curate) on Dec 19, 2005 at 15:08 UTC