Re: Difference of $hash, and %hash. (was Getting my head round hashes)

[Greenhalgh David]

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 09:46  pm, drieux wrote:

On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 13:34 US/Pacific, Kristofer Hoch wrote:
[..]
This is possibly the best answer.  I won't give any
other.
[..]

why thank you.

there are basically two reasons that one should
be playing with 'just perl stuff' -
        a. they have hashes well done, so if you NEED
                to have a well managed associative array, it just works
        b. perl has the best available RegEx engine short of
                bit twiddling one's own lex and byacc - this saves on
                a lot of complex wing-ding-ding to do it in say sed/awk/grep
                and can be done in one Process vice forking for ever...
after that it's the name space management solutions that
come with having perl modules....
ciao
drieux
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My thanks to both of you. The explanation was clear even to me, much 
better than the book i am using to learn perl.

Thanks again,

Dave

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