Associative array
-ssociative array
programming
(or “hash”, “map”, “dictionary”) an array where the indices are not just integers but may be arbitrary strings.
awk and its descendants (e.g. perl) have -ssociative arrays which are implemented using hash coding for faster look-up.
(2007-10-02)
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