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novicemonkey
Novice

Mar 29, 2004, 12:43 AM

Post #1 of 2 (291 views)

access array of hashes	Can't Post

I have a for each statement whic loops round and insert loads of hashes into an array like this:

foreach(){

my %entry = (href => $href, text => $label, bold => $bold);
push @output, \%entry;

}

$data = @output;

foreach my $l (@{ $data }) {
.........

}

In the second for each how would i test to see if the first has contained an text value = "james"?

I have tried loads of combinations for accessing hashes in arrays like $l->{text} but nothing ?

davorg
Thaumaturge / Moderator

Mar 29, 2004, 5:45 AM

Post #2 of 2 (290 views)

Re: [novicemonkey] access array of hashes [In reply to]	Can't Post

You don't have "use strict" turned on, do you? It's pretty much always a bad idea to write a Perl program without putting "use strict" at the top.

Code

$data = @output;

What do you think that the line of code above does? It takes the number of element in @output and stores that number in $data;

I think that perhaps you might have meant:

Code

$data = \@output;

Then you can do stuff like this:

Code

foreach (@$data) { 
  if ($_->{text} eq 'james') { 
    # you have found an element with a text item of 'james' 
  } 
}

With "use strict" you would have got the error:

Can't use string ("x") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at ./script.pl line y.

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