jshock schreef: > For example: > > my %weekdays = ( > 0 => "SUN", > 1 => "MON", > 2 => "TUE", > 3 => "WED", > 4 => "THU", > 5 => "FRI", > 6 => "SAT", > ); > $weekdays{2}; # gives "TUE" > > But what if I know "TUE" and want to find out what the key is? Is > there a construct like $weekdays{"TUE"} that gives 2"
The data structure that you show, belongs in an array. perl -le' #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @n2d = qw( SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT ); my %d2n; @d2n{ @n2d } = ( 0 .. $#n2d ); print $d2n{ WED }; ' 3 -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/