[Pdx-pm] Hash question

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce J Keeler <bruce at gridpoint.com> writes:

Bruce> This will recreate the hash, re-adding all the elements that were there
Bruce> before.  In cases where there are a lot of items in the hash to begin
Bruce> with, that's going to be inefficient.  Something like this might be
Bruce> better in that case:

Bruce>         %tmp = $db2->DataHash();
Bruce>         @SignUpInfo{keys %tmp} = values %tmp;
        
Bruce> Though now the new hash entries are going to be hashed twice instead, so
Bruce> that's less efficient in the case where there's more data being added
Bruce> than was there to begin with.

I think it's even been shown that iteration is better:

    my @array = $db2->DataHash();
    while (@array) {
      $SignUpInfo{shift @array} = shift @array;
    }

Of course, I'm cheating here, knowing that the left side
is eval'ed before the right.  If you don't want that much magic:

    my %tmp = $db2->DataHash();
    while (my ($k, $v) = each %tmp) {
      $SignUpInfo{$k} = $v;
    }

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