howdy Monks :D

I use a hash to implement this mapping 
%category = (
  "restaurant A" => "Dine Out",
  "restaurant B" => "Dine Out",
  "Walmart"      => "Grocery",
  "HEB"          => "Grocery",
  "Target"       => "Grocery"
  "Movies"       => "Fun",
  "Park"         => "Fun",
  "Shopping"     => "Fun" );

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so whenever a given $string
%category{$string} will tell you it's category

This looks ugly since the category will grow larger and larger
and it will duplicates multiple lines with the same category
(for example "Grocery" takes 3 lines)

is there a better way to do this?

something like
"restaurant A", "restaurant b" => "Dine Out"
"Walmart", "HEB", "Target" => "Grocery"
"Movies", "Park", "Shopping" => "Fun"

best,

David

In reply to better way to do N to 1 string mapping by tanyeun

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