On Wed, 2006-21-06 at 11:22 -0600, Don Sutter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm storing an array in a hash as a string using:
> 
>   $array{$client} = "@field";
> 
> and retrieving the array so I can manipulate it with:
> 
>   @field = &shellwords($array{$client});
> 
> This conversion to and fro must be inefficient and time consuming.  Is 
> there a "better" way to do this?

Use an anonymous array:

  $array{$client} = [ @field ];

  @field = @{ $array{$client} };


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