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Variables Inside Associative Arrays

Perl represents associative array variables as lists

• Key-Value pairs are stored in adjacent, even-odd, indexed elements

• PRO: You can "often" treat them as lists (creation, copying, indexing)

• CON: Key-Value pairs may not be stored in any particular order

Example

%foo = ( "first", "John", "last", "Moreland" );
$foo{age} = 34; # Game's over...
@bar = %foo;
# $foo{first} does not necessarily equal $bar[1]