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

Hi all,

I already had issues with this code and got help (see http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1176056) but I get a new error now and hope it is ok to open a new post for this the new issue.

Perl Version 5.10.0. causes the error:

yyy.pl Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash (not array dereference) at yyy.pl l +ine 22, near "}) " Execution of yyy.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

Code:

use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %REST_storage; my $json_decoded = { 'data' => [ { 'svpIp' => '10.1.1.1', 'model' => 'xyz', 'storageDeviceId' => '800000058068', 'serialNumber' => 58068 } ] }; print Dumper $json_decoded; for my $key1 (keys %$json_decoded) { print "key 1: $key1 + $json_decoded->{$key1}\n"; for my $key2 (keys @{ $json_decoded->{$key1} }) { print "key 2: $key2 + $json_decoded->{$key1}[$key +2]\n"; for my $key3 (keys %{ $json_decoded->{$key1}[$key2 +] }) { print "key 3: $key3 + $json_decoded->{$key1}[ +$key2]{$key3}\n"; $REST_storage{$key3} = $json_decoded->{$key1}[ +$key2]{$key3}; } } } print Dumper %REST_storage;

I undestand that I need hash instead of array for

for my $key2 (keys @{ $json_decoded->{$key1} }) but I do not know how to solve it.

Thanks for help.

kind regards deMichi

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Re: Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash (not array dereference) at
by haukex (Archbishop) on Nov 20, 2016 at 19:08 UTC

    Hi demichi,

    The keys function has gone though several changes as to what it accepts as its argument over the years, the ability to return the indicies of an array when called like keys @array was added in Perl 5.12.

    The last release of Perl in the 5.10 series was in 2009, so the first thing I'd recommend is that you look into upgrading your Perl.

    If you can't do that for whatever reason, then you can replace (keys @{ $json_decoded->{$key1} }) with (0..$#{ $json_decoded->{$key1} }) - see the Range Operators and the $#array syntax in perldata (search for "$#").

    Hope this helps,
    -- Hauke D

      Works perfect! Thanks Hauke.