in reply to Class::DBI question

I'm not sure what you imagined was going to happen when you called $entry->$hashref, but it doesn't work that way. $entry is an object, and you access it by calling method. If you want to update the fields foo, bar, and baz, you do this: 
$entry->foo(7);
$entry->bar('some string');
$entry->baz(23.5);
$entry->update();
$entry->dbi_commit();

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Re: Re: Class::DBI question
by freddo411 (Chaplain) on Oct 20, 2003 at 22:06 UTC
    What I'd like is a method called "update" that works like "create": 

    # as yet wishfull thinking...

             my $cd = Music::CD->update({
                     cdid   => 1,
                     artist => $artist,
                     title  => 'October',
                     year   => 1980,
             });

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    I'm surprized that one hasn't been written like this already. I may have to write this myself, but it would be nice not have to.

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    Nothing is too wonderful to be true
    -- Michael Faraday

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      I'm surprized that one hasn't been written like this already. I may have to write this myself, but it would be nice not have to.
      Well, it's called set 
      
my $cd = Music::CD->retrieve( cdid   => 1 ) or die "no cd 1";

$cd->set(
        artist => $artist,
        title  => 'October',
        year   => 1980,
);

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      update: that's why they call me PodMaster ;D

      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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        Yup, that's the ticket. Mea Culpa, it is in the docs, just not where I was looking for it.

        Thanks

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        -- Michael Faraday

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