How do I get this reference?

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

Howdy monks!
I'm trying to pull out a value from this Dumper and I am able to almost grab all of it except for one bit (as you can guess it's a really long dump so I am trying to only put the relevant part in).

I am able to successfully pull out the 'image/jpeg' portion by this .....

$query->{'.tmpfiles'}->{$file_uploaded}->{'info'}->{'Content-Type'}
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What I want is the "/usr/tmp/CGItemp12261" nugget. I can only get as far as..

$query->{'.tmpfiles'}->{$file_uploaded}->{'info'}->{'name'}
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and I get totally perplexed.

Does anyone know how to get at this? Thank you so much in advance. (Clarification: For the curious: that location is a temp location for an uploaded file that I need to check).

$VAR1 = bless( {
    '.charset' => 'ISO-8859-1',
    '.tmpfiles' => {
        '*Fh::fh00001testforme.jpg' => {
            'name' => bless( do{\(my $o = '/usr/tmp/CGItemp12261')}, '
+CGITempFile' ),
            'hndl' => bless( \*{'Fh::fh00001testforme.jpg'}, 'Fh' ),
            'info' => {
                'Content-Type' => 'image/jpeg',
                'Content-Disposition' => 'form-data; name="FileFT1"; f
+ilename="testforme.jpg"'
            }
        }
    },
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Re: How do I get this reference? by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Feb 04, 2014 at 22:12 UTC
FWIW, had this been an ordinary hash or an object reference for which it was really, really necessary to violate encapsulation, something like the following (shorn of bless-ed confusion) might have been served: `>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dumper -le "my %hash = (foo => {bar => {name => do { \(my $o = 'HiThere') }}}); ;; my $hash_ref = \%hash; print Dumper $hash_ref; ;; my $scalar_ref = $hash_ref->{foo}{bar}{name}; my $scalar = $$scalar_ref; print qq{'$scalar'}; " $VAR1 = { 'foo' => { 'bar' => { 'name' => \'HiThere' } } }; 'HiThere'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How do I get this reference? by Kenosis (Priest) on Feb 04, 2014 at 20:16 UTC
Is this an object for which a method exists that provides access to the wanted value?	[reply]
Re^2: How do I get this reference? by sherab (Scribe) on Feb 04, 2014 at 21:50 UTC
Special thanks to Kenosis. I just needed to correctly use the tmpFileName method to read it. Case closed;	[reply]
Re^3: How do I get this reference? by Kenosis (Priest) on Feb 04, 2014 at 22:34 UTC
Great that you solved it!	[reply]
Re^2: How do I get this reference? by sherab (Scribe) on Feb 04, 2014 at 20:23 UTC
Thanks for jumping in! I am using CGI to take a bunch of values from a page and a file upload. The reason I am jumping through these hoops is to determine the MIME type and discovered that CGI's MIME checking just reads the extension and can easily be fooled (as well as all other perl mods) but by using linux's mime checking I get better results if I could only apply it against the actual file being uploaded. (Sorry about being so wordy on this)	[reply]