MadMongers (Madison Perl Mongers)

Hash Tricks

JT will show you the amazing power of Perl hashes (aka associative arrays in other languages).

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Lori Banks

What's the difference between an associative array variable and an ordinary array variable? Also, I would like to learn a lot more about Perl because I don't know much. I had school training with PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, Dreamweaver, VB and Java. Do you ever work with some of these at the meetup groups?

0 · February 20
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- JT Smith
  
  Howdy Lori! Welcome to MadMongers. A hash (or an associative array) looks like this:
  
  0 · February 20
- JT Smith
  
  %hash = ( color => 'Blue', make => 'Ford' );
  
  0 · February 20
- JT Smith
  
  A regular array looks like this:
  
  0 · February 20
- JT Smith
  
  @array = ('Blue', 'Ford');
  
  0 · February 20
- JT Smith
  
  MadMongers is a Perl users group. As such we occasionally compare other languages, but we rarely due tutorials in other languages, except perhaps for Javascript.
  
  0 · February 20