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Perl
10 lines
531 B
Perl
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The regular arrays allow you to access elements by their index numbers, starting at 0.
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Associative arrays allow you to access elements by key names.
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An associative array or hash holds a set of key/value pairs.
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A key name is any arbitrary scalar value.
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Perl uses a percent sign (%) to indicate that a variable is a hash.
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Any value in a hash can be accessed through its key name with the following syntax:
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The dollar sign ($) means that the value held in the hash under a given key name is a scalar value.
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$hash{keyname}
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