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jazzo
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Aug 27, 2012, 5:21 AM

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Hi all, I wonder what happens when we reverse a hash.
Given this code

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my %where=( 
Gary => "Dallas", 
Lucy => "Exeter", 
Ian => "Reading", 
Samantha => "Oregon" 
); 
my %who = reverse %where;

what happens to the hash after it has been reversed?
I mean which way is it reversed? Do keys become values or does the order change?
thanks

shawnhcorey
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Aug 27, 2012, 6:17 AM

Post #2 of 5 (795 views)

Re: [jazzo] reversing a hash [In reply to]	Can't Post

See:

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perldoc -q 'How do I look up a hash element by value?'

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Laurent_R
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Aug 27, 2012, 6:59 AM

Post #3 of 5 (793 views)

Re: [jazzo] reversing a hash [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hashes have no particular order (the order is internal to the hash), a reverse on a hash will do nothing, the hash will remain unchanged.

FishMonger
Veteran

Aug 27, 2012, 8:13 AM

Post #4 of 5 (791 views)

Re: [jazzo] reversing a hash [In reply to]	Can't Post

An easy way to find out what happens is to print out both hashes, which would have taken less time than asking the question.

Code

use Data::Dumper; 
 
my %where=(  
Gary => "Dallas",  
Lucy => "Exeter",  
Ian => "Reading",  
Samantha => "Oregon"  
);  
my %who = reverse %where; 
 
print Dumper \%who, \%where;

jazzo
Novice

Aug 27, 2012, 12:47 PM

Post #5 of 5 (787 views)

Re: [FishMonger] reversing a hash [In reply to]	Can't Post

thanks, I tried that but it looks like I need to install something, is there a package or something:

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antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ perldoc -q 'How do I look up a hash element by value?' 
You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.

Ah sorry I forgot to add this: I have printed both the hashes, the normal one which produced

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Lucy Exeter Samantha Oregon Gary Dallas Ian Reading

and the reversed one which gave

Code

Oregon Samantha Exeter Lucy Reading Ian Dallas Gary

so it appears as if reversing a hash swaps the value and keys?!

(This post was edited by jazzo on Aug 27, 2012, 1:08 PM)

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