Re^5: Help understand why this grep does not work

[drmrgd]

Yes, this is why I didn't do that in the first place. Although with the data I have listed I think this would work, if I had to expand it and there weren't unique values, you're right - this wouldn't work so well. I think your 'or-ed regex' is indeed better.

For the sake of argument (I'm just playing around trying to get better a handling data in Perl and the map function), what's the best way to create a hash of arrays with this data? I can't seem to create the data structure with a map. I know this won't work as it overwrites the values on each pass:

my %data_hash = map { /^(\w\s+\d)/ => [$_] } @data2;

But, I can't seem to figure out how to create a hash of arrays with the map function. Maybe it's not possible or not the best way?

[LanX]

OK, these two three possibilities seem to do it, but by far not as performant as the or-ed regex.

  DB<126> %hash = map { my ($m)=/^(\w\s+\d)/; $m => [ grep {/^$m/} @da
+ta2 ] } @data1 
 => ("a 1", [], "a 2", ["a 2 Y"], "a 3", ["a 3 R"])

  DB<127> %hash = map { my $k=$_ ; $k => [ grep {/^$k/} @data2 ] } map
+ { /^(\w\s+\d)/} @data1 
 => ("a 1", [], "a 2", ["a 2 Y"], "a 3", ["a 3 R"])

  DB<128> %hash = map { /^(\w\s+\d)/; $1 => [ grep {/^$1/} @data2 ] } 
+@data1
 => ("a 1", [], "a 2", ["a 2 Y"], "a 3", ["a 3 R"])

update

see also Generating Hash-of-List using map?

[drmrgd]

Very informative; thank you! This definitely starts to drift into the 'difficult to read and maintain' territory, though. You've been a big help giving me some insight on how to play around with 'map' a little more, though. Thanks again!