SPUG: In over my head with hashes of arrays of arrays

[Jeremy G. Kahn]

Hey Duane (*waves*):

The trick is to think object-y.  An array which has an array at each 
element is a 2-d array, or a Grid.

So if the value of each hash key is a reference to a Grid, you're okay, 
right?

$myhash{evens} = [ [0,2,4], [4,6,8] ];
$myhash{odds} = [ [1,3,5], [7,9,11] ];


then you can access it as $myhash{$odds}->[0][0] .

cf `perldoc perlol`; `perldoc perldsc`, `perldoc perlref` and (probably 
what you'll want in the long run) `perldoc perlobj`.

--jeremy

Duane Blanchard wrote:

>Hi Spuggers,
>
>I'm working on a hairy data set for which I need a hash in which the
>values are arrays which each have as one of their elements an
>additional array. My assumption is that I will be OK using anonymous
>arrays, but before I stay up all night trying to figure out that my
>assumption is wrong, I thought I'd ask someone.
>
>Thanks, yet again,
>
>Duane
>
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