NAME¶
Tie::CPHash - Case preserving but case insensitive hash table
VERSION¶
This document describes version 1.05 of Tie::CPHash, released January 20, 2012.
SYNOPSIS¶
require Tie::CPHash;
tie %cphash, 'Tie::CPHash';
$cphash{'Hello World'} = 'Hi there!';
printf("The key `%s' was used to store `%s'.\n",
tied(%cphash)->key('HELLO WORLD'),
$cphash{'HELLO world'});
DESCRIPTION¶
The Tie::CPHash module provides a hash table that is case preserving but case
insensitive. This means that
$cphash{KEY} $cphash{key}
$cphash{Key} $cphash{keY}
all refer to the same entry. Also, the hash remembers which form of the key was
last used to store the entry. The "keys" and "each"
functions will return the key that was used to set the value.
An example should make this clear:
tie %h, 'Tie::CPHash';
$h{Hello} = 'World';
print $h{HELLO}; # Prints 'World'
print keys(%h); # Prints 'Hello'
$h{HELLO} = 'WORLD';
print $h{hello}; # Prints 'WORLD'
print keys(%h); # Prints 'HELLO'
The additional "key" method lets you fetch the case of a specific key:
# When run after the previous example, this prints 'HELLO':
print tied(%h)->key('Hello');
(The "tied" function returns the object that %h is tied to.)
If you need a case insensitive hash, but don't need to preserve case, just use
$hash{lc $key} instead of $hash{$key}. This has a lot less overhead than
Tie::CPHash.
CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT¶
Tie::CPHash requires no configuration files or environment variables.
INCOMPATIBILITIES¶
None reported.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS¶
No bugs have been reported.
AUTHOR¶
Christopher J. Madsen "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"
Please report any bugs or feature requests to
"<bug-Tie-CPHash AT rt.cpan.org>" or through the web
interface at
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Tie-CPHash
<
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Tie-CPHash>.
You can follow or contribute to Tie-CPHash's development at
http://github.com/madsen/tie-cphash
<
http://github.com/madsen/tie-cphash>.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Christopher J. Madsen.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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