Hardly Armchair am Donnerstag, 14. September 2006 00:00: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There is something you're not telling us about the contents of these > > hashes. > > Sorry, %p_mod looks like this: [...see in script below] > > My best guess (since you make us guess) is that you're looking for a > > deep copy because the values of %p_mod are actually references. > > I was unaware that this made a difference, thus the insufficient > information. How do I proceed?
Besides Storable::dclone, there is also Clone::clone; in my experience, Clone::clone is much faster; you can benchmark the two clone subs in your particular context: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Clone qw(clone); use Storable qw(dclone); use Benchmark qw(timethese); my %p_mod = ( 'A' => { 'fingers' => { '4' => 'ABSFMQS', '5' => 'SMTFQNL', }, 'name' => '8-H34' }, 'C' => { 'fingers' => { '1' => 'ALEJIEK', '2' => 'BESLERJ', }, 'name' => '9-J09' }, 'B' => { 'fingers' => { '3' => 'OLPWJEK', }, 'name' => '6-G79' } ); timethese(100_000, { 'Clone' => sub { my %copy=%{ clone(\%p_mod) } }, 'Storable' => sub { my %copy=%{ dclone(\%p_mod) } }, }) for (1..100); __END__ Dani -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>