In Perl, how do I create a hash whose keys come from a given array?

Question

Let\'s say I have an array, and I know I\'m going to be doing a lot of \"Does the array contain X?\" checks. The efficient way to do this is to turn that array into a hash, wher

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @a = qw(5 8 2 5 4 8 9);
my @b = qw(7 6 5 4 3 2 1);
my $h = {};

@{$h}{@a} = @b;

print Dumper($h);

gives (note repeated keys get the value at the greatest position in the array - ie 8->2 and not 6)

$VAR1 = {
          '8' => '2',
          '4' => '3',
          '9' => '1',
          '2' => '5',
          '5' => '4'
        };