On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Hanson, Robert wrote: > Hashes are slower than arrays, but I don't usually worry about those things > unless performance is an issue. I recommend (others will no doubt have > different opinions) that you use a hash when it makes your life easier... in > this case it might not, but that is up to you to decide. The only time I do > things the "harder" way is if it saves a good amount of run time.
It would make my life much easier and since the amount of records will not be in the thousands, I guess I will go that route. > By the way, you are using an array and *not* a list. It might seem like > they are synonymous but they really aren't. And array is a Perl data type > and a list is just a list of data. There was a good article in the Perl > Journal differentiating between them, it might also be on Perl.com. Thank you for the correction, I will check for the article. -Scott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
