Re^2: Using an array in a hash

[Anonymous Monk]

The person asked for how to get a array back OUT OF A HASH. None of you have answered the question. I would like to know how to do this as well. Here what I tried and it failed. my @host_type= qw { a b c d e} ; my $j = "small" ; my %vendor_size_hash = ($j => \@host_type ) ; print "\@vendor_size_hash{$j} \n " ;

[friedo]

There are two ways to dereference an array, depending on what you need to do. See perlref and perlreftut for the details.

In short, to dereference an entire array, use:

my @array = @{ $vendor_size_hash{$j} };

To dereference a single element in the array, use:

my $el = $vendor_size_hash{$j}[$number];