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What Is It?
Associative arrays, also frequently called hashes, are the third
major data type in Perl after scalars and arrays. Hashes are named as
such because they work very similarly to a common data structure that
programmers use in other languages--hash tables. However, hashes in
Perl are actually a direct language supported data type.
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