array to hash

[sunil9009]

How can I convert:
my $items = [{'a' => 1},{'b' => 2},{'c' => 3}];
to
my $values = {{'a' => 1},{'b' => 2},{'c' => 3}};
tried something like my $values = map {$_ => $_->{$_}} keys $_ map $_, @{$items}; and gave up

[McA]

Hi,

you need always a key-value-pair for a hash. So, what is the key in

{{'a' => 1},{'b' => 2},{'c' => 3}};

UPDATE: Or do you mean:

{'a' => 1,'b' => 2,'c' => 3};

UPDATE2: In that case it could be something like:

my $items = [{'a' => 1}, {'b' => 2}, {'c' => 3}];
my $values = {map { %$_ } @$items};

Regards
McA

[Anonymous Monk]

The law of hashes , the law of dictionary , states, keys are words, keys are strings, keys cannot be reference, hashes or arrays, keys are only strings, they're key words, like in a dictionary, a hash is a dictionary

so you cannot write my %hash = ( \%foo => \%bar ) as \%foo becomes a string ...

so whatever you had in mind for $values, you need to type up a different example of what you want, an example that is more sensible:)

unless you really wanted the stringification of \%foo as an actual key (I doubt that)

[sunil9009]

Thank you everyone, that solved my issue.