I'm using mySQL.

I perform my fetch as $job_hash = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();

Next, I want to subsitute the "\n" that are part of a particular element and replace them with "&ltbr&gt" for HTML display.

i.e.

$$job_hash{'subjects'} =~ s/\n/<br>/g;

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What I end up with is seemingly garbled $$job_hash{'subjects'} which randomly removes portions of the text and also seems to include "back-spaces" as it won't even print out
print "subjects = $$job_hash{'subjects'}\n"; correctly. Instead, it appears to print out the right hand side of $$job_hash{'subjects'}, backspaced on top of "subjects = ".
???? What am I doing wrong here.

I've used the same regex before on the 'subjects' field when using $sth-&gtfetchrow_array and it has worked fine. Is there something about referenced hashes that I'm not understanding? (I've even tried assigning it to a seperate variable ($sub = $$job_hash{'subjects'};) and then performing the regex, but still no luck
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Filmo the Klown

In reply to Strange values in hash reference by filmo

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