Thanks. I looked at this site while searching for solutions but I probably
skipped the section on sorting because I wasn't sorting the hash.
regards, Richard
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:12:56 -0400, richard wrote:
> >Hi
>
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:12:56 -0400, richard wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm trying to understand the difference between the keys() and
>values () operators. What I'm not getting is why a hash must be
>reversed to get the key corresponding to a value? (as stated in
>perldoc). Can someone explain this please?
>
>
Octavian
Thanks for taking the time to write such a thorough reply. My question is
completely answered by this section:
You can't get the key for a certain value. Say you have the following hash:
my %hash = (a => 1, b => 2, c => 3, d => 2, e => 2);
What's the key for the value "2"?
I was so pr
Perl has 2 types of arrays: common arrays and associative arrays which are
called hashes.
In order to get the value of an item from an ordinary array, you need to
specify the index of that array, for example:
my @array = (1, 2, 3);
print $array[1]; #will print "2" (because the indexes start fr
Hi
I'm trying to understand the difference between the keys() and values ()
operators. What I'm not getting is why a hash must be reversed to get the
key corresponding to a value? (as stated in perldoc). Can someone explain
this please?
Here is my test script; My perl is freebsd 5.8.9
use warnin
