NAME

List::ToHash - List to hash which have unique keys

SYNOPSIS

use List::ToHash qw/to_hash/;
my @users = (
    {
        id => 1,
        value => 'foo',
    },
    {
        id => 2,
        value => 'bar',
    },
);
my $x = to_hash { $_->{id} } @users;
# {
#     "1" => {
#        "id" => 1,
#        "value" => "foo"
#     },
#     "2" => {
#        "id" => 2,
#        "value" => "bar"
#     }
# };

DESCRIPTION

List::ToHash provides fast conversion list to hash by using lightweight callback API.

map is so simple and good for readability. I usually use this in this situation.

my $x = +{map { ($_->{id} => $_) } @users};

List::Util::reduce is a little tricky however it works faster than map.

my $x = List::Util::reduce { $a->{$b->{id}} = $b; $a } ({}, @ARRAY);

for is lame... Look, it spends two lines.

my $x = {};
$x->{$_->{id}} = $_ for @users;

List::ToHash::to_hash is a quite simple way, more faster.

my $x = List::ToHash::to_hash { $_->{id} } @users;

BENCHMARK

List::ToHash is the fastest module in this benchmark eg/bench.pl.

Benchmark: running for, map, reduce, to_hash for at least 3 CPU seconds...
       for:  3 wallclock secs ( 3.18 usr +  0.01 sys =  3.19 CPU) @ 19303.13/s (n=61577)
       map:  3 wallclock secs ( 3.13 usr +  0.02 sys =  3.15 CPU) @ 13437.46/s (n=42328)
    reduce:  3 wallclock secs ( 3.20 usr +  0.02 sys =  3.22 CPU) @ 18504.66/s (n=59585)
   to_hash:  4 wallclock secs ( 3.12 usr +  0.01 sys =  3.13 CPU) @ 26635.78/s (n=83370)
           Rate     map  reduce     for to_hash
map     13437/s      --    -27%    -30%    -50%
reduce  18505/s     38%      --     -4%    -31%
for     19303/s     44%      4%      --    -28%
to_hash 26636/s     98%     44%     38%      --

FUNCTIONS

• my $hashref = to_hash { ... } @list;

  Returns the hash reference of given @list for which have the key returned by the block.

  my $id_to_user_row = to_hash { $_->{id} } @user_rows;
  

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Takumi Akiyama.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Takumi Akiyama <t.akiym@gmail.com>