Re: [MacPerl] going backwards

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 1:25 PM -0800 1/3/00, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:
>  for what I'm doing I'd like not to have an inverse hash for all the arrays.

A hash is the usual solution; alternatives such as regular expressions
are unlikely to be any faster.  Could you explain your problem a bit more,
detailing why a hash is not a good solution in this instance?

-r

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