{ package Tie::ArrayAsHash; use strict; no warnings; use Carp; use Hash::FieldHash qw(fieldhash); use Scalar::Util qw(reftype); use base qw(Exporter); BEGIN { our @EXPORT_OK = 'aeach'; $INC{'Tie/ArrayAsHash.pm'} = __FILE__; }; use constant { IDX_DATA => 0, IDX_EACH => 1, NEXT_IDX => 2, }; fieldhash my %cache; sub aeach (\[@%]) { my $thing = shift; return each %$thing if reftype $thing eq 'HASH'; confess "should be passed a HASH or ARRAY" unless reftype $thing eq 'ARRAY'; my $thing_h = $cache{$thing} ||= do { tie my %h, __PACKAGE__, $thing; \%h }; each %$thing_h; } sub TIEHASH { my ($class, $arrayref) = @_; bless [$arrayref, 0] => $class; } sub STORE { my ($self, $k, $v) = @_; $self->[IDX_DATA][$k] = $v; } sub FETCH { my ($self, $k) = @_; $self->[IDX_DATA][$k]; } sub FIRSTKEY { my ($self) = @_; $self->[IDX_EACH] = 0; $self->NEXTKEY; } sub NEXTKEY { my ($self) = @_; my $curr = $self->[IDX_EACH]++; return if $curr >= @{ $self->[IDX_DATA] }; return $curr; } sub EXISTS { my ($self, $k) = @_; !!($k eq $k+0 and $k < @{ $self->[IDX_DATA] } ); } sub DELETE { my ($self, $k) = @_; return pop @{ $self->[IDX_DATA] } if @{ $self->[IDX_DATA] } == $k + 1; confess "DELETE not fully implemented"; } sub CLEAR { my ($self) = @_; $self->[IDX_DATA] = []; } sub SCALAR { my ($self) = @_; my %tmp = map { $_ => $self->[IDX_DATA][$_] } 0 .. $#{ $self->[IDX_DATA] }; return scalar(%tmp); } } #### use 5.010; use Tie::ArrayAsHash 'aeach'; my %hash = qw( a foo b bar c baz ); my @array = qw( foo bar baz ); while (my ($key, $value) = aeach %hash) { say "HASH $key => $value"; } while (my ($idx, $value) = aeach @array) { say "ARRAY $idx => $value"; }