Re: How to create hash out of an array elements?

[ikegami]

in reply to How to create hash out of an array elements?

The map callback never gets called since you didn't pass any list to transform, so map returns nothing.

You could create the desired list of two elements as follows:

my %sizes = ( $symbolsizes[0] => $symbolsizes[1] );

But really, all you need is the following:

my %sizes = @symbolsizes;

PS — The language is called "Perl", not "PERL".

[jojojo]

Thanks. This seems to be working. Now I am not able to print the values. The following code works:

print "The size for $symbolsizes[0] is $sizes{$symbolsizes[0]}";

But when I specify the name, it doesnt work. And this code is of no use if it can't print the values when the function name is specified. Please help.

print "The size for function is $sizes{function}";

Assume function to be an element of the array symbolsizes.

[ikegami]

Then $symbolsizes[0] doesn't contains function. Perhaps it contains a trailing newline that you didn't remove using chomp?

[aaron_baugher]

And to see exactly what your hash does contain, use Data::Dumper (or one of its descendants). (I'm passing Dumper a reference to the hash because it prints it in a more hash-like manner that way.)

abaugher@Aliantha ~$ cat doit
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Modern::Perl;

my @array = ( 'key', 'value' );
my %hash = @array;

say "The value of 'key' is '$hash{key}'";

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \%hash;

abaugher@Aliantha ~$ perl doit
The value of 'key' is 'value'
$VAR1 = {
          'key' => 'value'
        };