>>>>> "Brian" == Brian <fulls...@me.com> writes:
Brian> Just curious if there is a particular reason Shawn did not use the reverse function: Brian> my %hash = ( Brian> './b/fb' => 'fb', Brian> './b/c/fd' => 'fd', Brian> './b/l/c/f2' => 'f2', Brian> './b/g/f/r/fc' => 'fc', Brian> './b/g/h/r/fb' => 'fb' Brian> ); Brian> my %inv_hash = reverse %hash; Try it and see. The big problem is that there are two entries that would have both wanted the key of "fb". One of them would have been discarded at random. Not good in this case. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
