On Aug 13, 9:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Foskey) wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 22:55 -0400, yitzle wrote: > > I got an array of values where the order is relevent, eg the ages of > > Alice, Bob and Charles, and I want to make a hash out of it. I got > > this code that does it: > > my %ages = (alice => $r[0], bob => $r[1], charles => $r[2]); > > Is there a more elegent way to do it? > > This is not elegant in this example but it possibly is the answer you > are looking for. > > my %ages{ 'alice', 'bob', 'charles'} = @r;
I rather doubt the OP is looking for an "answer" that doesn't even compile. I can only assume you meant: my %ages; @ages{'alice', 'bob', 'charles'} = @r; Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/