Hash of Arrays Data Structure
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A Hash of Arrays Data Structure is a Hash Data Structure whose elements are Array Data Structures.
- AKA: Hash of Arrays.
- Context:
- It can be used to look up each array by a particular string (rather than merely by an index number).
- It has no order (because the outer data structure is a hash).
- Example(s):
- a Perl Hash of Arrays.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- an Array of Arrays.
- a Hash of Hashes.
- See: Associative Array.