Kyle Burton on Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:39:24 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] Perl Question...


Use delete():

my %h = ('a'=>1,'b'=>2,'c'=>3);

delete $h{'a'};   # 'a'=>1 is now gone from the hashtable...


k

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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Charles Stack wrote:

> If one has a hash that has, say N elements in it and you want to get rid of
> some, how does one do that?  With perl arrays, one can use $#.  I haven't
> figured out how to do it with hashes without making a new hash table.
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> BTW, has anybody downloaded JBuilder Foundation from Inprise yet?
> 
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