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 ...

In Bash, a hash is a data structure that can contain many sub-variables, of the same or different kinds, but indexes them with user-defined text strings, or keys, instead of fixed numeric identifiers.

As you may, or may not, be aware the right wing press has recently been in an uproar over Obama's refusal to release information about donations of less than $200 - and they're also upset because the ...