in reply to references hashes arrays fun ... again :-(

$rec->{'path_details'} = [ @path_details ];

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Is this the line you're referring to? If so, I think what you want is.. 
$rec->{'path_details'} =  \@path_details ;

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What you have, I *think* is creating an array ref of @path_details evaluated in scalar context, which will be the count of the array. I could be completely wrong, because I usually have to fumble through context related issues to figure out what's going on. But on first glance, this is what I see.

Hope this helps..
Rich

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Re: Re: references hashes arrays fun ... again :-(
by davorg (Chancellor) on Aug 09, 2001 at 19:29 UTC

    The difference between

    $rec->{'path_details'} = [ @path_details ];

    and

    $rec->{'path_details'} = \@path_details;

    is that the first one creates a copy of @path_details and returns the reference to this new copy, whilst the second one returns a reference to the original @path_details.

    This has nothing to do with context.

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