Re: How do I populate a ML hash from an array?

Sure enough: I have values set then it tries to place the nested hash in the same level.
Here is some logs of the last set of arrays sent to the sub:
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 15
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 16
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 18
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 15 14
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 18 17
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 18 19
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 15 14 13
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 15 14 13 12
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 15 14 13 12 11
02-28-2001 15:18:46 |69 15 14 13 12 11 10
$hash{69}{15}
$hash{69}{18}
Are set first, so all the others are ignored. When really, the least important are the first ({69}{15} & {69}{18}) with the last in the set being critical:
$hash{69}{15}{14}{13}{12}{11}{10}
$hash{69}{18}{17}
$hash{69}{18}{19}
$hash{69}{16}
What the script is doing is going through some DB entries and trying to draw a tree from the info it finds. $hash{69}{15}{14}{13}{12}{11}{10} represents a whole leg. My ultimate goal is to draw out the pyramid. I figure that if I could load all the values into the hash, I could just do a recursive iteration of the hash to print out the tree. But since $hash{69}{15} = 1 is set first, the rest of the program errors.

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Re (tilly) 2: How do I populate a ML hash from an array? by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2001 at 04:15 UTC
Why not use an empty hash (ie {}) as your default true value? Then when $hash{69}{15} is set to {}, there is no problem setting $hash{69}{15}{14}{13} to {} after that.	[reply]
Re: Re (tilly) 2: How do I populate a ML hash from an array? by unixdown (Scribe) on Mar 01, 2001 at 05:10 UTC
Well hot-dog! Thank you. I was thinking way to hard about that one for such a simple answer.	[reply]
(tye)Re2: How do I populate a ML hash from an array? by tye (Sage) on Mar 01, 2001 at 03:24 UTC
Why don't you just use `$hash{join $;, @list}= 1` instead? - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l]
Re: (tye)Re2: How do I populate a ML hash from an array? by unixdown (Scribe) on Mar 01, 2001 at 03:35 UTC
Because that would produce: $hash{onetwothree} = 1 instead of $hash{one}{two}{three} = 1	[reply]