Re: fun with hashes!

Brian Duggan <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:45:48 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday, November 23, Uri Guttman wrote: 
> one goal i have is to
> list and explain as many different uses for hashes as reasonably
> possible. 

I often use them to divide one big file into several
small files named after some field in each line, e.g.

perl -MIO::File -ane '($fds{$F[1]} ||= IO::File->new(">$F[1]"))->print($_)' < bigfile

Brian