An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest ...

ITworld.com – An associative array, when implemented in Perl, has come to be known as a “hash” — a word that is also used to describe the digested value (i.e., the “message digest”) generated from a ...