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5. Associative Arrays (Hashes)

This chapter will introduce the third major Perl abstract data type, associative arrays. Also known as hashes, associative arrays provide native language support for one of the most useful data structures that programmers implement--the hash table.

5.1 What Is It?
5.2 Variables
5.3 Literals
5.4 Functions
5.5 Slices
5.6 Context Considerations

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