in reply to Is there a cleaner way to write this code below, which includes derferencing references, that themselves have to be dereferenced?

Untested, of course...

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11143595 use warnings; ###### from my Perl pm module our @ticketsFields = qw( ... every column in my table...); ### number of columns #our $ticketsFieldsSize = @ticketsFields; our @ticketsRecords; sub getTicketsRecords { ### my conditional arguments ### to be used in WHERE and AND my (...multiple args... ) = @_; ### build select command ### grabbing every column my $dbCommand = qq^select ^ . join ',', @ticketsFields; # foreach (@ticketsFields) { # $dbCommand .= "$_,"; # } # $dbCommand =~ s/,$//; ### and the conditional arguments passed in $dbCommand .= ... ### execute command ### get the data $dbHandle=$db->prepare($dbCommand); $dbHandle->execute(); my $data = $dbHandle->fetchall_arrayref(); $dbHandle->finish; ### go throught every row, in the reference array foreach my $rows ( @$data ) { ### dereference the first/next row # my @newArray = @{$rows}; ### create a blank hash my %GenericData; @GenericData{ @ticketsFields } = @$rows; # NOTE added ### loop through the new row ### for every column in the table # for(my $x = 0; $x < $ticketsFieldsSize; $x++) # { # ### assign the key and value in the hash # $GenericData{$ticketsFields[$x]} = $newArray[$x]; # } ### add reference to has to an array push @ticketsRecords, \%GenericData; } ### pass back a reference to my array of hash references return \@ticketsRecords; }
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Re^2: Is there a cleaner way to write this code below, which includes derferencing references, that themselves have to be dereferenced?
by stevieb (Canon) on May 05, 2022 at 22:27 UTC

    It would be prudent and helpful to explain what you're replacing, and why.