misterperl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Things that make u go HUH..

I'm trying something like:

($cgi is a hashref, @KEYS = keys %$cgi)

If I try:

die join ',',@$cgi{@KEYS}

I get a list of values from the hash, as expected. All is good.

BUT, if I try

my @vals = delete @$cgi{@KEYS}

I get an array of length @KEYS, each element empty ( eq ''), even though the array has values I can see in the die? delete should return an array of the values from the deleted slice?

I humbly seek counsel. I don't get it.

PS I should have mentioned - YES, the hash elements are indeed deleted... I just cant get the vals back....
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Re: delete hash slice from a hashref wont return vals?
by hdb (Monsignor) on Aug 21, 2013 at 14:37 UTC

    It works for me: 

    use strict;
use warnings;

my $cgi = { a => 1, b => 2 };
my @keys = keys %$cgi;
my @vals = delete @$cgi{ @keys };
print "@vals\n";

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    prints "1 2"

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      Yes I got it to work in a small example too. I'm starting to think it has something to do with the fact that im revisiting the page and $cgi may be somehow getting altered in a way I'm not seeing.

      Thanks for the reply sir!
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Re: delete hash slice from a hashref wont return vals? (dumper)
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 21, 2013 at 15:34 UTC
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