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From your statement of the problem, it sounds like all the codes are unique. That allows you to use a translation hash. Lets set one up starting with an Array-of-Arrays that is built directly from your data.

my @code_data = [ ['US','USA','USD'], # ... ]; my %translator = map { $_->[0] => $_, $_->[1] => $_, $_->[2] => $_ } @code_data; use constant ccode => 0; use conatant country => 1; use constant currency => 2; print $translator{USA}[currency]; print $translator{USD)[ccode];
You have a problem with the design which will make this construction fail as it is. What country is supposed to come back when you say $translator{EURO}[country]? Your question does not hold up on meeting real data.

The currency elements need to hash to an array. You may have other data with similar properties. It doesn't have to be painful, but it's not as simple as above:

# construct %translator as before, but only for unique keys for (@code_data) { push @{$translator{$_->[currency]}}, $_; }
That makes your lookups a little more complicated, but that is dictated by the problem domain.

After Compline,
Zaxo


In reply to Re: data structure problem by Zaxo
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