Data Structures in PERL

[Roman Rodriguez]

Can you use PERL to create data structures such as linked list? if so, is
there maybe a link where this can be studied?

Thanks,
-RR

 

[Tad McClellan]

Can you use PERL to create data structures such as linked list?

You are expected to check the Perl FAQ *before* posting to the
Perl newsgroup you know.

perldoc -q linked

How do I handle linked lists?

 

[Paul Lalli]

Can you use PERL to create data structures such as linked list? if so, is
there maybe a link where this can be studied?

(Perl. Not PERL. See: perldoc -q difference)

You *can*, but you don't want to. Perl's native arrays are already more
powerful than linked lists. This simple question smells like an XY
problem. You need to do X, and you've decided based on programming in
other languages that the way to do X is with a linked list (Y). So
you're asking us how to do Y intead of how to do X.

What is it you actually want to do?

To answer the question you (sort of) asked, a description of Perl
datastructures - hashes, arrays, arrays of array references, etc, are
discussed in:
perldoc perldsc

Paul Lalli

 

[ctcgag]

Can you use PERL to create data structures such as linked list?

Yes, you can. But you rarely will want or need to.

if so,
is there maybe a link where this can be studied?

What is your goal? If you want to learn about linked lists, then
it probably isn't so relevant what language you use, so I'd just take
whatever language the tutorial you find happens to use. If your goal
is to learn perl, I'd choose something other than linked lists as the foil
for doing so. That said,
perldoc -q linked
should be enough to start you off exploring linked lists in Perl.

Xho

 

[Edward Wijaya]

perldoc -q linked list