The Each Function

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Managing DBM Files The Each Function

The each() function steps through key-value pairs of an associative array

This is useful for walking through large DBM files

Here's a SMALL example just to demonstrate the each() function

%myHash = ( "a", "Ape", "b", "Bat", "c", "Cat" );
while ( ($key, $value) = each( %myHash ) )
{
	print "$key = $value\n";
}

Assigning to the array or calling keys() or values() will reset each() back to the first key-value pair

Don't add/delete elements in a loop because each() will get confused!