Re: How to create multiple keys in a hash

[bl0rf]

I'm not exactly sure what you want to do with the
modified hash implementation but you answered your
own question by using split() in your example code
:-)

Simply use a separated string as your key and iterate
over the values in the string as if they were keys:

%modhash = ();
$modhash{ 'first:second:third' } = [ 'bob', 'bill', 'bo' ];
$modhash{ 'Canada:USA:China' } =
                               [ 'beaver','eagle','Mao' ];

# two sample entries, notice the anonymous arrays

foreach $key ( keys %modhash )
{
  @subkeys = split( /:/, $key );
  for( $i = 0; $i < scalar @subkeys; $i++ )
  {
    print "subkey-> $subkeys[$i]\t",
          "subvalue-> $modhash{$key}->[$i]\n";
  }
  print "\n"; # separates different main keys
}

This code is tested ( ActivePerl 5.6.0 ) and produces
this output:

subkey-> Canada subvalue-> beaver
subkey-> USA subvalue-> eagle
subkey-> China subvalue-> Mao

subkey-> first subvalue-> bob
subkey-> second subvalue-> bill
subkey-> third subvalue-> bo

I've got a feeling that you might accomplish your
task in an easier manner.

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