Re^2: Assign (key, value) to a hash w/o clobbering hash

because the OP doesn't want to clobber what's already in the hash. Assigning a list to a hash clears out the hash first, and then starts assigning the new values.

Update: argh, see mreece's reply to this post

~~Regardless, the map is completely redundant here, the following two are equivalent.~~

%hash = map { split( /X/, $_ ) } ( "fooXbar","bishXbash");
%hash = split /X/, ("fooXbar","bishXbash");
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Re^3: Assign (key, value) to a hash w/o clobbering hash by mreece (Friar) on Sep 28, 2006 at 14:45 UTC
those are not at all equivalent! `DB<1> x %hash = map { split( /X/, $_ ) } ( "fooXbar","bishXbash"); 0 'foo' 1 'bar' 2 'bish' 3 'bash' DB<2> x %hash = split /X/, ("fooXbar","bishXbash"); 0 'bish' 1 'bash'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Assign (key, value) to a hash w/o clobbering hash by wazoox (Prior) on Sep 29, 2006 at 15:45 UTC
because the OP doesn't want to clobber what's already in the hash. Maybe, but the OP proposed a solution that do reset the hash : `# Works, but needs redundent array undef %hash; @array = (split /X/, "fooXbar"); $hash{$array[0]} = $array[1]; @array = (split /X/, "bishXbash"); $hash{$array[0]} = $array[1]; foreach(keys %hash){ print "2: $_ = $hash{$_}\n"; }` [download] so what is to be achieved isn't that clear after all.	[reply] [d/l]