On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:05, Brian Fraser wrote:
> Chas++
>
> I don't get to see Algorithms in college, so I doubly appreciate
> explanations like this, in the one language I sort of grok* :) You've made
> my morning, thank you!
snip
Be warned, my implementation is incredibly naive and ineffici
Hi Chas, and Brian (and all),
On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 18:05:33 Brian Fraser wrote:
> Chas++
>
> I don't get to see Algorithms in college, so I doubly appreciate
> explanations like this, in the one language I sort of grok* :) You've made
> my morning, thank you!
Well, I've only skimmed Chas' res
Chas++
I don't get to see Algorithms in college, so I doubly appreciate
explanations like this, in the one language I sort of grok* :) You've made
my morning, thank you!
Brian.
*Also the reason I'm trying to hunt down a copy of Mastering Algorithms with
Perl.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Ch
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:53, Sunita Rani Pradhan
wrote:
> Thanks Alan . I had got this piece of info from google but I do not
> understand clearly what it wants to define . It would be good , if you
> can explain bit more .
snip
If you want to know how many key/value pairs are in a hash, you c
Hi Sunita,
Thanks Alan . I had got this piece of info from google but I do not
understand clearly what it wants to define . It would be good , if
you can explain bit more .
You are welcome.
The numbers are dependent on the internal hashing algorithm used by perl
of which I am unaware of.
Hop
1:19 PM
To: Sunita Rani Pradhan
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: assigning hash to a scalar
Hi Sunita,
> $var = %input;
> ...
> Output : 3/8--> What does this output mean ?
You are evaluating a hash in a scalar context.
Quoting perldata:
If you evaluate a hash in scalar
Hi Sunita,
$var = %input;
…
Output : 3/8--> What does this output mean ?
You are evaluating a hash in a scalar context.
Quoting perldata:
If you evaluate a hash in scalar context, it returns false if the hash
is empty. If there are any key/value pairs, it returns true; more
precisely,
