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philthee · 10-22-2004, 07:03 AM

Perhaps can they? would be better

Say i have a file

One 232
Two 323
Three 555
One 231

can they work so as to have my code read in each line as a key and value pair, and then i can catch any instances of a key appearing twice (in this case 'One') and do something with it?

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philthee Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 15	Do Multidimensional arrays work like a hash in Perl? Perhaps can they? would be better Say i have a file One 232 Two 323 Three 555 One 231 can they work so as to have my code read in each line as a key and value pair, and then i can catch any instances of a key appearing twice (in this case 'One') and do something with it?