From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-06-19T22:10:28+09:00
Subject: Re: need a hash/iteration tutorial...text reading.

Hi --

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Steven Demonnin wrote:

> Since arrays are key/value (from what I can understand), there are only
> two part to the array.  I thought you couldn't put a third value in an
> array.

It's more that you sort the hash into an array of two-element arrays,
and then sort that array. Iterating through an array of two-element
arrays is similar to iterating through a hash, in the sense that each
iteration yields two values.


David

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