On Wed, 2006-21-06 at 11:22 -0600, Don Sutter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm storing an array in a hash as a string using:
>
> $array{$client} = "@field";
>
> and retrieving the array so I can manipulate it with:
>
> @field = &shellwords($array{$client});
>
> This conversion to and fro must be inefficient and time consuming. Is
> there a "better" way to do this?
Use an anonymous array:
$array{$client} = [ @field ];
@field = @{ $array{$client} };
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