Re: How should I construct this?

[thomasg <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:56 PM, TJ Luoma <tj@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 24 Apr 2013, at 14:39, thomasg wrote:
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>> What you want to use in a case like this are hashtables.
>> Basically this is a special array type, defined like this:
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> Ooh, I _knew_ there had to be a way.
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> Hashtables, eh? I've never used one of those before. Looking forward to
> playing with that.

Zsh calls this Associative Array btw., hashtable isn't technically
correct I guess (even though it looks like one :)

> (Have I mentioned that I've used zsh for ~20 years and feel like I'm only
> using 0.001% of what it can do? Stuff like this is why!)

Sometimes I think even the maintainers of zsh have to feel this way :)

> Thanks again
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> TjL
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