Re: Serious question on using Perl or not...

Gregoire Hostettler wrote:
> Seriousely considering making my customer change his mind and revert to
> plain old C++
(...)
> Looks like Perl is not able to handle trivial data structure like an array
> of records (or hashes).

Gregoire,

1) Your code *shows* you're a C/C++ programmer; it will take some time 
to be proficient in Perl, if you want to.

2) The comment at line 29 is impolite and unnecessary.

3) It's easy to add a new item to an array of hashes (you must fix it in 
line 60):

	push @array, \%hash;

4) Use Data::Dumper to check your data structure:

	use Data::Dumper;
	print Dumper @table;

5) It's easier to iterate over an array of hashes using foreach:

	foreach my $hashref (@table) {
	  # do something with $hashref or %{$hashref}
	}

[]s

Nelson