Datastructure

HI!

Actually I'm about to code a tool, that's able to track users of a
website (using cookies). However, I've got a problem with the sorting of
the data. I need a data structure like this:

%hash(array(array)) "hash of an array of an array"

So for testing purposes I generated a small dataset, which looks like this:


%HoAoA = (
hash1 => [
( [ "first", "second" ],
[ "third" , "fourth" ],
[ "fifth" , "sixth" ]
)
],
hash2 => [
( [ "9th", "10th" ],
[ "11th" , "12th" ]
)
]

);

So while it was no problem to acces all data fields using nested loops,
I was not able to append data to these arrays listed above. Array's push
doesn't seem to work for this.

Example of what I want to do:
push($HoAoA{hash1}[2], "seventh");


Any suggestions?

Re: Datastructure

Bioperler writes:

> %HoAoA = (
> hash1 => [
> ( [ "first", "second" ],
> [ "third" , "fourth" ],
> [ "fifth" , "sixth" ]
> )
> ],

You don't need the inner ()'s

> hash2 => [
> ( [ "9th", "10th" ],
> [ "11th" , "12th" ]
> )
> ]
>
> );
>

> Example of what I want to do:
> push($HoAoA{hash1}[2], "seventh");

The first argument to push should be an actual array and not just an
reference. So you have to dereference it:

push @{ $HoAoA{hash1}[2] }, "seventh";

//Makholm

Re: Datastructure

Bioperler wrote:
>
> Actually I'm about to code a tool, that's able to track users of a
> website (using cookies). However, I've got a problem with the sorting of
> the data. I need a data structure like this:
>
> %hash(array(array)) "hash of an array of an array"
>
> So for testing purposes I generated a small dataset, which looks like this:
>
> %HoAoA = (
> hash1 => [
> ( [ "first", "second" ],
> [ "third" , "fourth" ],
> [ "fifth" , "sixth" ]
> )
> ],
> hash2 => [
> ( [ "9th", "10th" ],
> [ "11th" , "12th" ]
> )
> ]
>
> );
>
> So while it was no problem to acces all data fields using nested loops,
> I was not able to append data to these arrays listed above. Array's push
> doesn't seem to work for this.
>
> Example of what I want to do:
> push($HoAoA{hash1}[2], "seventh");
>
> Any suggestions?

You have to dereference the array (push only modifies arrays):

push @{ $HoAoA{ hash1 }[ 2 ] }, 'seventh';



John
--
use Perl;
program
fulfillment

Re: Datastructure

Peter Makholm wrote:
> Bioperler writes:
>
>> %HoAoA = (
>> hash1 => [
>> ( [ "first", "second" ],
>> [ "third" , "fourth" ],
>> [ "fifth" , "sixth" ]
>> )
>> ],
>
> You don't need the inner ()'s
Yes, you're right. But actually the structure is a bit more complex - I
just shorted it a little bit to ease it.

>
>> hash2 => [
>> ( [ "9th", "10th" ],
>> [ "11th" , "12th" ]
>> )
>> ]
>>
>> );
>>
>
>> Example of what I want to do:
>> push($HoAoA{hash1}[2], "seventh");
>
> The first argument to push should be an actual array and not just an
> reference. So you have to dereference it:
>
> push @{ $HoAoA{hash1}[2] }, "seventh";
Thanks! This works. Seems as I have to read a little bit about that :-)

Re: Datastructure

Bioperler wrote:
> Peter Makholm wrote:


>> push @{ $HoAoA{hash1}[2] }, "seventh";
> Thanks! This works. Seems as I have to read a little bit about that :-)


You can do that with:

perldoc perlreftut


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