in reply to Re^2: read a hash from a file
in thread read a hash from a file

You are also having REC->new which must be provided by some module. Which one is that?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^4: read a hash from a file
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 16, 2013 at 06:59 UTC
    opps. Thanks for pointing that out. The code pulls is a few custom libs written by my predecessor that I did't think were needed for this issue. Looks like they were. 
    sub new {
        my ($self, %args) = @_;
        my @required = qw(NAME AGE RANK URL);

        my %cfg = map {uc $_ => $args{$_}} keys %args;

        for my $req (qw(NAME AGE RANK URL)) {
                croak "Required argument $req not found"
                        unless exists $cfg{$req};
        }

        return bless \%cfg, $self;
}

    [download]
[reply]
[d/l]

      I cannot directly use this but what happens if you add the following to my code above: 

      my $record = REC->new( %data ); 
print Dumper( $record );

      [download]
[reply]
[d/l]
        It works! You are a genuis! Is there anyway to do it without using the intermediary %data ?
[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom