Re: Re: Hash slices ?

[arturo]

how do I find if at least one of many keys in a list is in a hash (quick, fast, and simple)

Dunno if this meets *all* of your criteria, but I find this simple enough:

my @search_keys = qw(one two three);
my %hash = ( four=>4,
         five=>5,
        six=>6);
my $foundit =0;
foreach (@search_keys) {
    if (exists $hash{$_}) {
        $foundit =1;
        print "found an entry for $_ in %hash!\n";
        }
}

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

[davorg]

Given that the idea is to find out if any of the keys exist in the hash, it would be more efficient to call last and exit the loop once you've found one.

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