Mapping an array to a string

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Re: Mapping an array to a string by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 08, 2008 at 09:08 UTC
What should that mapping looking like? You can do something like `use Data::Dumper; my $string = Dumper \@array;` [download] Which represents an array as a string, but it doesn't use a hash (at least not visibly). Could you rephrase your question, and provide one or two examples what the result should look like?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Mapping an array to a string by Punitha (Priest) on Jan 08, 2008 at 09:45 UTC
Hi chuck_norris Did you want to do something like this `use strict; my @AoH = ( {'Lead'=>'fred','Friend'=>'barney'}, {'Lead'=>'george','Wife'=> 'jane','Son'=>'elroy'} ); my $string = \@AoH; for my $href ( @$string) { for my $role ( keys %$href ) { print "$role:$href->{$role}\n"; } }` [download] Punitha	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Mapping an array to a string by olus (Curate) on Jan 08, 2008 at 14:09 UTC
If I understood correctly `use strict; use warnings; my @array=(1,2,3); my %hash = (); $hash{'string'} = \@array; print $hash{'string'}[0]; print $hash{'string'}[1]; print $hash{'string'}[2];` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Mapping an array to a string by bunch (Sexton) on Jan 08, 2008 at 20:22 UTC
Do you want to use arrays as hash keys? Only strings can be hash keys in Perl, but you can get a stringified representation of an array using eg. Data::Dumper or YAML, so you should do something like this: `use Data::Dumper; $hash{Dumper(\@array)} = $value;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]