LPM: RE: "on break" processing in perl?

David Hempy hempy at ket.org
Mon Jan 22 22:31:28 CST 2001


At 10:48 PM 1/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Sounds like you're trying to emulate the features of reporting software.  I
>do this all the time - and you should know, Dave, because I talk to you
>about work all the time.  (Anyone know the emoticon for pouting?)

How about:

         :~(


>I use multidimensional hashes.  Then you just nest a few for loops and do
>what you will with the data inside the innermost loop.  Makes it easy to do
>subtotals, tallies, etc, too.
>
>I can send code snippets if anyone's interested.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd sure like to see them.

I am currently on p.270 of Learning Perl: References and Nested Data 
Structures.  Sound about right?  :-)


-dave


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