Shlomi, I am not trying to be critical of perl or anything (if that is what you felt). I am only trying to see if a certain feature exists or not. The current problem I am working on has duplicate key values and hence the question.
The STL multipmap library explanation is below: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/multimap/ Regards, Sharan On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > Hi Sharan, > > On Monday 02 August 2010 13:13:19 Sharan Basappa wrote: >> Hello Uri, >> >> Thanks for the explanation. I figured this out once I ran the code >> where I got this doubt. >> The reason why I raised this question is that languages like C++ do >> allow hashes arrays > > Please don't call hashes "hashes arrays". They are either "hashes" or > "associative arrays". (Technically, hashes are the name of the implementation > rather than the Abstract Data Type of a Dictionary that matches keys to values > , but we call that in Perl because it's a short and convenient word). > >> that can have different values but same key. Thats the reason for the >> second part of my >> question. > > Are you talking about the C Standard Template Library (STL)? How does what you > are referring to allow multiple values for the same key? I should note that if > you wish to do something like that in Perl, you can have the key point to a > value that is an array reference, a hash reference or a different data > structure. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ > > God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then > decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
