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Re: newbie hashes question

by Trimbach (Curate)
on Jun 05, 2002 at 11:32 UTC ( [id://171798]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to newbie hashes question

What you want to create is a hash of arrays. Your code was close, although I'm not sure why you split $seq again... (unless $seq contains a list of items you need to break out, in which case you want a hash of arrays of arrays). Something like this should work:
while (<MYFILE>) #this is my opened file { { next if /^\s*File/; #remove line starting with filename my ($id, $seq) = split; # The my is important push @{$species{$id}}, $seq; } } # later... while ( ($key, $sequence) = each %species ) { print $key, "\t", join ":", @$sequence; } # Which will out your key, followed by a tab, # followed by all your sequences (however many # there are) separated by colons
Refer to perlman:perlref for more details on references and why they're a good thing. If you need a hash of arrays of arrays that's not a problem, but it complicates the assignment and de-referencing of your hash, and is an exercise left to the reader. :-D

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

Edited: after re-reading what the poster really wanted.

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