OC-PM: hash changing

[Andrew Sweger]

On 11 Jul 2002, Michael S. Lavery wrote:

> Is there a way to edit an element in a hash table without recreating the
> whole thing? I just need to change a few values.

Please excuse if I've over simplified this.

Given:

%fruit = ( Orange => "orange",
           Apple  => "red",
           Banana => "yellow",
);

Let's say you want to change the color (value) of the Apple element.

$fruit{Apple} = "white";

Is that what you're looking for? There's a couple (hundred) other ways to
do it.

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