Re: [FWP] Copying hashes

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:05:45PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote:
> I'm using the following little snippet of code:
>     my $r = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() or return 0;
>     $self->{keys %$r} = $self->{values %$r};
> 
> I can't imagine there's a better way to plug the values from %$r into my
> hash, but I figure it's worth asking about...

People have discussed allowing

push %$self, %$r;  # keys in %$r override keys in %$self

or

unshift %$self, %$r;  # keys in %$self override keys in %$r

I like it.

Andrew

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