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My also be useful to use a "better" SQL statement, and "miss" the conversion in Perl. So instead of:
# grab the stuff from the database my $sth = $DBH->prepare(' select title, artist, album, year from songs '); $sth->execute(); # prepare a data structure for HTML::Template my $rows; push @{$rows}, $_ while $_ = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
Use:
# grab the stuff from the database my $rows = $DBH->selectall_arrayref(' select title, artist, album, year from songs', Slice => {} );
This creates an array of hashrefs directly - see the DBI docs for more details.