Re: Creating hash Array


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Re: Creating hash Array

by Punitha (Priest)

on Oct 20, 2008 at 07:41 UTC ( [id://718158]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Hi ashnator

'@_' is the special variable used for subroutine arguments, instead you should use the array variable like

use strict;
my %href;
my $fn=<>;

open(FH,"$fn") || die("Cannot open:$!");

while(<FH>)
{
  my @array =split('\t',$_); ###@array is the array variable
  my $key = $array[0];
  $href{$key} = $array[1];    

}

while (my ($key, $value) = each(%href))
{
    print $key.", ".$value."\n";
}
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Re^2: Creating hash Array
by blazar (Canon) on Oct 21, 2008 at 09:40 UTC

I personally believe that while @_ should certainly not be used as a general purpose variable, @array is as a horrible a name as one can be. It's like having a dog and calling it "dog!!" FWIW, a single letter variable would be better, especially here, since it's used only in two lines - except that I would use two scalars instead. Even better: since the whole file is slurped anyway, how 'bout the following?

my %data = map { chomp; split /\t/, $_, 2 } <FH>;
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(Of course, it will fail if there are not enough entries for some record. In which case it would require some sanitizing which is left as an exercise to the OP.)

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