RE: return a hash key

2001-10-19 Thread AL H
>Is this really your data model? Why all the nested >levels of hashes? > Is there another alternative to access data from a database (cvs or sql) besides using hashes and arrays without nesting? Al >From: Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: 'AL H' <[E

return a hash key

2001-10-18 Thread AL H
Let say I have a multikey hash: $poeple{$first}{$Last}{$MI}{$CITY} If I am passing values to this hash Is there a function or a way to retrieve missing keys from it? I know that if (! exists %poeple ->{$first}->{$Last}-{$MI}) will return false or true. I want thes non valid keys temselves to be