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in reply to Minimize Hash Key Value Combinations

you could store your attributes in there own hash (or even an array), and then the relations can refer to the shorter keys

my %attrib = (key1 => 'xxxx', key2 => 'yyyy', ...); [a,b,c] => [key1,key2]; [d] => [keyn]; #etc

the keys can then be as short as you like, a simple count or even a hash of the data.

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Re^2: Minimize Hash Key Value Combinations
by AlexTape (Monk) on Nov 18, 2013 at 14:21 UTC
    thats basically call by reference :) but thank you..
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