Definition of "hash" []

• A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned. (noun)
• A jumble; a hodgepodge. (noun)
• Informal A mess: made a hash of the project. (noun)
• A reworking or restatement of already familiar material. (noun)
• To chop into pieces; mince. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "$hash {$assign} { 'repval'} = $tmpVal; print Dumper (\%hash); return (\%hash, @tmpArr);"
• "$hash { 'foo'} = $hash { 'bar'} = 'some value'; which gets tedious with more than one hash key."
• "$con - > query ( "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"); else my $query2 = $con - > query ( "SELECT User FROM db WHERE Db = '". $dbname. "'" ); while (my \% hash = $query2 - > fetchhash) my $user = $hash {0};"