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on Mar 23, 2001 at 17:53 UTC ( [id://66620]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Well, totally bored here at work. I have a bunch of VBScript code (ugh!) that's sitting here doing nothing until I get more specs. Thought I would use the time to play around with a problem suggested in another node. Essentially, the author wanted to sort a list by frequency of the items in that list. Having spare time and a huge desire to maintain my limited Perl skills, I wrote the following snippet:
Is there any way of eliminating the temporary variable %freqs? I hate synthetic code (code that solves a coding problem, not the problem the program is designed for) and it's bugging me. Or is this one of those age-old "FAQ" questions that I should already know the answer to? Yeah, I know. It's a trivial post, but like I said, I am bored out of my skull here. Incidentally, I am returning to the US in April (and will be programming in Perl again!!!!) and will be bidding a sad farewell to my newfound friends here in the Netherlands: kudra, ar0n, and h0mee (who was here visiting).
Cheers, Update: Once again, tilly makes me feel stupid :) Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.
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