Re: Re: mapping two arrays into anon hash

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Re: Re: Re: mapping two arrays into anon hash by Masem (Monsignor) on Jan 08, 2002 at 17:49 UTC
You're asking for the impossible, or if it is, it's going to be an ugly mess. Sure, it's nice to get a simple result that doesn't use extra variables, but if it becomes unreadible, then you're going to confuse others as to the meaning of your code. In this case, using a temporary hash is not going to increase your memory usage save for maybe an extra byte if you create a reference to the hash, and the code will be much easier to read. But here's another solution that doesn't use any extra variables beyond $_: `use Data::Dumper; my @names = qw ( web email stuff ); my @values = qw( 33 44 55 ); my $ref = { map { $names[$_] => $values[$_] } (0..$#names) }; print Dumper $ref;` [download] (It's still not as clean as using the hash slice, IMO, but if that's what you want...) ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com \|\| "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain "I can see my house from here!" It's not what you know, but knowing how to find it if you don't know that's important	[reply] [d/l]
Re: mapping two arrays into anon hash by agoth (Chaplain) on Jan 08, 2002 at 18:02 UTC
Thanks for that, that's it. Don't worry! I have no intention of leaving it in the code, and will probably opt for the subroutine method anyway, I do generally work with half an eye on maintainability. What REALLY bugged me was not being able to figure out HOW to shortcut it even if I wasn't going to use the shortcut in the end product...There might be 8 WTDI in this case but i knew there was a shorter WTDI somewhere....	[reply]


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