Re: Perl hash query

Also an online option might be to read  the
perl 5 by example tutorial at:-

http://www.codebits.com/p5be/

Peter Newton

> When I finished reading "Perl for Dummies" I still couldn't write any
Perl,
> one of the O'Reilly books would probably be a better reference for you. I
> have given up Perl for PHP though. It is much simpler to use.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stuart McDonald <stuart(at)fourelephants.com>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:34 PM
> Subject: Perl hash query
>
>
> | Hi,
> |
> | I'm currently trying to write a script which will take three values off
a
> | form (ID, number and score) and write them to a file which I can then
> | retrieve later and perform calculations on both number and score.
> Initially
> | I had the script creating three seperate files which works fine, but
this
> | will eventually result in my creating hundreds and hundreds of hils in
my
> | directory, which I'm not real thrilled about.
> |
> | I'm playing around with hashes but just can't get it to work as the book
> | I've got (perl for Dummies (& don't I just feel like one!) does not
> explain
> | how to nominate a key value for a hash.
> |
> | Any help would be much appreciated.
> |
> | Stuart
> |
>
>

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