Perl’s map function always returns lists, even when the intent to create a hash is abundantly clear. This leads to CPU cycles wasted on creating the hash from the list after-the-fact. Python’s dict ...

"BEGIN HASH" and "BEGIN ARRAY" can be found anywhere where "BEGIN DATA" is expected. Serialized data is expected to start with any of "BEGIN HASH", "BEGIN ARRAY" or "BEGIN DATA". Starting with "BEGIN ...

Hope some of the perl gurus can help out ... I'm just starting out w/ Perl and I have some of the very rudimentary basics down and I'm able to create my very own hash table ... I know, yeah yeah, big ...

ITworld.com – An associative array, when implemented in Perl, has come to be known as a “hash” — a word that is also used to describe the digested value (i.e., the “message digest”) generated from a ...

I'm modifying an irssi script that allows you to queue up packs to download one at a time via DCC. The function below checks to make sure that the DCC request is being sent by the same nick as the one ...