On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Drew Taylor wrote:
> "Ken Y. Clark" wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Drew Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > I have a question about data structures. Currently, I am doing SQL
> > > queries and returning an array ref and a hash ref. The array is to
> > > preserve order, and the hash contains various bits of data about that
> >
> > not to be dense, but can't you just issue an "order by" clause as part of
> > your SQL statement?
> I do that already. But hashes don't preserve order on their own,
> otherwise I'd just use that alone. The array keeps things in the proper
> order, and the hash stores data about each individual record.
doh, but if you fetch the data using ORDER BY and then read in one hashref
at a time you are getting an ordered array, not a hash ...
this is way OT now ...
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