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} }; -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>