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HobbitOfShire
HobbitOfShire

Reputation: 2414

Get hash of arrays content inside a subroutine

I have a hash of array like this which i want to use inside a subroutine. I pass it by reference to this subroutine like the &sub(\%hash) and inside sub i do this print Dumper $_[0] and this is my output : 

$VAR1 = {
      'key1' => [
                              'value1',
                              'value2'
                            ],
      'key2' => [
                                          'foo',
                                          'bar'
                                        ]
    };

What is the proper way get the content of all array values into 2 separate arrays inside my subroutine like this :

my @ones ; my @tows ;
print "@ones" ;
print "\n"; 
print "@tows";

And get this in the output

value1 foo
value2 bar

Upvotes: 1

Views: 104

Answers (1)

Dave Cross
Dave Cross

Reputation: 69224

Don't call your subroutine with a &. It'll just confuse you at some point and hasn't been necessary for almost twenty years.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

my %hash = (
  key1 => [
    'value1',
    'value2'
  ],
  key2 => [
    'foo',
    'bar'
  ]
);

print_vals(\%hash);

sub print_vals {
  my ($hashref) = @_;

  # $hashref->{key1} is a reference to an array
  # therefore @{$hashref->{key1}} is an array
  my @arr1 = @{$hashref->{key1}};
  my @arr2 = @{$hashref->{key2}};

  # $#arr1 is the last index in @arr1
  for (0 .. $#arr1) {
    say "$arr1[$_] $arr2[$_]"
  }
}

Upvotes: 3

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