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Re: Re: Re: Merging hashes

by shotgunefx (Parson)
on Sep 10, 2002 at 12:31 UTC ( [id://196642]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Merging hashes
in thread Merging hashes

Thats what hashes do. map a unique key to a unique values. But you can make that value an array ref and store your multiple values.

It also looks like you want to apply it recursively. May I ask what you are trying to do?

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
UPDATE
Here's enough rope to hang yourself with.
Merges N hashes arbitrarily deep. Making it merge arrays as well is left as an exercise for the reader.
Dies on circular references. Not heavily tested.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; BEGIN { my %SeenMerged = (); sub mergehashes{ # Dies on circular references my @hashrefs = @_; die "Passed a non hashref" if grep { ref $_ ne 'HASH' } @h +ashrefs; my %merged = (); my @seen = grep { ref $_ eq 'HASH' } @SeenMerged{@hashref +s}; # Break circular links.. if (@seen){ die "contains a circular reference! bailing..."; } @SeenMerged{@hashrefs} = @hashrefs; foreach my $h (@hashrefs){ while (my ($k,$v) = each %$h ){ push @{$merged{$k}}, $v; } } while (my ($k,$v) = each %merged){ my @hashes = grep { ref $_ eq 'HASH' } @$v; $merged{$k} = $v->[0] if (@$v == 1 && !ref $v->[0]); + $merged{$k} = mergehashes(@hashes) if @hashes; } delete @SeenMerged{@hashrefs}; return \%merged; } } my %hash1 = ( red => 1, brown => { green => 1, blue => { yellow => 1, }, black => 1, }, gray => 1, ); my %hash2 = ( white => 1, brown => { purple => 1, }, ); my $merged = mergehashes(\%hash1, \%hash2) ;#or die "Couldn't merge!"; print Dumper($merged);

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Merging hashes
by hotshot (Prior) on Sep 10, 2002 at 12:35 UTC
    but if I don't work with references, and do something like:
    $hash{red}{blue} = 1; $hash{red}{green} = 1;
    I get;
    %hash = ( red => ( blue => 1, green => 1, ), );
    I want that to happen with references too.

    Hotshot
      What I meant by "what are you trying to do?" I meant what is the problem you are trying to solve.

      Merging hashes recursively is possible but I think you might be better suited with a different data structure. Maybe I'm wrong but I can't see why you would need to do that.

      -Lee

      "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

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