Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
> I thought the easy way to do this is to first assign my entire 'en' data
> structure to the 'de' structure and then add 'de' values as available.
>
> So I did this:
>
> $text{'main'}{'de'} = $text{'main'}{'en'};
>
> $text{'main'}{'de'} = { # German labels
> 'alias_sub' => "ALIAS",
> 'user_sub' => "BENUTZER",
> };
>
> But this assignment doesn't seem to work. Can I not do this?
I bet it does. Just not the way you want it to.
$text{'main'}{'de'} = $text{'main'}{'en'};
Assigns $text{'main'}{'de'} to the anonymous hash pointed to by
$text{'main'}{'en'}
$text{'main'}{'de'} = { # German labels
'alias_sub' => "ALIAS",
'user_sub' => "BENUTZER",
};
Assigns $text{'main'}{'de'} to the anonymous hash containing:
'alias_sub' => "ALIAS",
'user_sub' => "BENUTZER",
Thus nullifying the effect of the previous statement.
*Hash-based structures do not have columns or support parallelism*
I'd suggest a little restructuring:
$text{'main'} = {
'alias_sub' => {'en' => 'Alias', 'de' => 'Allas'},
'user_sub' => {'en' => 'User', 'de' => 'Benutzer'},
...
}
A little less elegant when it comes to accessing it, but if you see the
potential for forgetting the German counterparts as serious, this would make it
much less likely.
Joseph
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