One other thing - if you're familiar with other programming languages you may have come across the idea of hash with a different name such as 'associative array', 'dictionary', 'map' or 'symbol table'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array Andrew On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Martin Barth <mar...@senfdax.de> wrote: > and hashes are not sorted, like lists are. > > Martin > > Am 31.07.2015 um 08:28 schrieb Uday Vernekar: > > Hashes are complex list data, like arrays except they link a key to a > > value. > > Hashes can be used for counting, uniqueness, searching, and dispatch and > > lot more than just mapping from one thing to another and More. > > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> > wrote: > > > >> On 07/30/2015 11:38 PM, bikram behera wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Team, > >>> > >>> hi, > >> we aren't a team. this is a public mailing list. > >> > >> Please send me hash uses and concept > >> think of them as arrays but instead of integers for indexing, you use > >> strings. the uses are too many to list here. some are data structures, > >> tables, data validation, data conversion, database records and much > more. > >> > >> uri > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > >> http://learn.perl.org/ > >> > >> > >> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Andrew Solomon Mentor@Geekuni http://geekuni.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon
