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in thread Database issues

What I'm trying to do is get store $name and $age from a form into a database. So I try using $stats{$name} = $age; thinking that would give store a list like (see below) for me. What am I doing wrong?

George Clinton 10000
Bill Bush      9999999
Pocahontas     20
Godzilla       123

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Re: Re: Re: Database issues
by nothingmuch (Priest) on Apr 09, 2003 at 16:26 UTC 
    foreach $name (qw(George Bill Pocahantas Godzilla)){
     $stats{$name} = int rand(10); # give the name a random value
}

while(my ($key,$value) = each %stats){
    print "$key is $value years old\n";
}

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    Does this help?

    -nuffin
    zz zZ Z Z #!perl
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[d/l]
      not really, I can't pull a foreach off things collected from a form (maybe you can, I just don't see how it would work). Thanks.
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        Have a look at Common Beginner Mistakes (item: Repetition without Abstraction).

        CountZero

        "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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