in reply to Re^3: (another) HoH question
in thread (another) HoH question

Actually, this does come close to what I was looking for. Understanding it, however, is another matter. LOL.

I will give it a try.

Thanks for your help, everyone.

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Re^5: (another) HoH question
by muba (Priest) on Jun 23, 2012 at 19:59 UTC

    That's okay. Which part(s) do you find hard to understand? I'd love to explain things in more depth. I could write an elaborate essay of the whole routine, but I'd rather just clarify those parts that are unclear to you. And by "part" I don't necesserily mean pieces of the code - you might as well wonder how or why certain things were done.

      Actually I got it to work! The structure and your comments made it very easy to follow. Thanks a bunch.

      The only quirk that I ran into was that the bottom tier of the hash was a list instead of a hash entry. I had wanted to use a hash if only to squirrel away a data value upon retrieval. As a workaround, I just created a separate HoH for that purpose. (Now that I think about it, I could have created an array for this).