Hash and arrays

[palette]

How to build a hash using two arrays.

Consider I want the first element of the array to be the first key of the hash and the first element of the second array as the value for the corresponding hash key and so on

Please tell me how to go around this.
Thank you

[holli]

You mean like this?

my @k = ("a", "b", "c");
my @v = (1, 2, 3);
my %h = map { $k[$_] => $v[$_] } (0..$#k);

[thinker]

Or, in a similar way, use a hash slice to populate the hash

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings FATAL => "all";
use Data::Dumper;

my @k = ("a", "b", "c");
my @v = (1, 2, 3);
my %h;
@h{@k} = @v;

print Dumper \%h;

__END__

output

$VAR1 = {
          'c' => 3,
          'a' => 1,
          'b' => 2
        };

cheers

thinker

[TedPride]

@hash{@keys} = @vals;

EDIT: I've often wondered this. How come my answer showed up before thinker's did, yet now it's below his? Is order determined when you start your post, rather than when you complete it?

[polettix]

thinker replied to holli's post, which appeared before yours. You'll notice that the answers in PM are arranged in a tree-like fashion, so holli's post whole subtree will always show up before your post here.

[anonymized user 468275]

Although, despite the fact that people can reply to an earlier reply to 'jump the queue', as it might appear, your reply will be less indented i.e. at a higher level - from my point of view, when reading replies less indent-depth carries more weight, because it is more likely to address the original issue - hmmm gives me an idea for a poll.

[TedPride]

Hmm. I personally find the whole tree structure thing confusing when there's no indented list of posts. It's much better to just list the posts sequentially. I always reply to the original poster so my posts aren't below the max shown depth.

[davorg]

I personally find the whole tree structure thing confusing when there's no indented list of posts.

But the posts _are_ indented to the correct level. Or, at least, they are in the view that I see.

I always reply to the original poster so my posts aren't below the max shown depth.

Which leads to confusing situations (like the post that I'm replying to) where your post has nothing to do with the one that it's a reply to. It's actually a reply to a completely different post. Not sure how you can think that's _less_ confusing :)