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Posted by Kevin Brammer on June 17, 2008, 11:48 am
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nolo contendere wrote:
> [snip]
> For the record, I agree with bugbear that a more appropriate data
> structure would be a hash of arrays.
Thanks for the replies everyone.
The only problem with a hash of arrays is I need to be able to lookup
the values by name. For example, I need to be able to pull 00-00AAAA,
entry2 ($HoH) independently. I suppose I could go
searching through the array for the particular hash item, but it just
seems more efficient to call it.
Kevin
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Posted by xhoster on June 17, 2008, 2:55 pm
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> nolo contendere wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> > For the record, I agree with bugbear that a more appropriate data
> > structure would be a hash of arrays.
>
> Thanks for the replies everyone.
>
> The only problem with a hash of arrays is I need to be able to lookup
> the values by name. For example, I need to be able to pull 00-00AAAA,
> entry2 ($HoH) independently.
But people are suggesting a hash of array, not an array of array.
You have:
$HoH
you could do:
$HoA[$entry_as_actual_number]
> I suppose I could go
> searching through the array for the particular hash item, but it just
> seems more efficient to call it.
Maybe your real world second level structure isn't as simple as your
example "entry1", "entry2", "entry3" and they have real meaningful names
instead, or maybe that format is mandated by some other part of the code
you can't change, but generally I'd say you should strip off the silly
"entry" part and just use the numeric part (but changing them to start with
0 rather than 1), and then since you are using integers, use an array
rather than a hash for the second level. The first level, of course, stays
a hash.
Xho
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Posted by Kevin Brammer on June 17, 2008, 11:49 am
Please log in for more thread options nolo contendere wrote:
> [snip]
> For the record, I agree with bugbear that a more appropriate data
> structure would be a hash of arrays.
Thanks for the replies everyone.
The only problem with a hash of arrays is I need to be able to lookup
the values by name. For example, I need to be able to pull 00-00AAAA,
entry2 ($HoH) independently. I suppose I could go
searching through the array for the particular hash item, but it just
seems more efficient to call it.
Kevin
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Posted by Kevin Brammer on June 17, 2008, 11:49 am
Please log in for more thread options nolo contendere wrote:
> [snip]
> For the record, I agree with bugbear that a more appropriate data
> structure would be a hash of arrays.
Thanks for the replies everyone.
The only problem with a hash of arrays is I need to be able to lookup
the values by name. For example, I need to be able to pull 00-00AAAA,
entry2 ($HoH) independently. I suppose I could go
searching through the array for the particular hash item, but it just
seems more efficient to call it.
Kevin
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Posted by nolo contendere on June 17, 2008, 11:56 am
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> nolo contendere wrote:
>
> =A0> [snip]
>
> > For the record, I agree with bugbear that a more appropriate data
> > structure would be a hash of arrays.
>
> Thanks for the replies everyone.
>
> The only problem with a hash of arrays is I need to be able to lookup
> the values by name. =A0For example, I need to be able to pull 00-00AAAA,
> entry2 ($HoH) =A0independently. =A0I suppose I could go
> searching through the array for the particular hash item, but it just
> seems more efficient to call it.
>
Right, but you're artificially creating the "entry0", "entry1"...key
in your hash. So you are doing more work than you need since that
could more easily be the array index.
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