Dear Perl monks,
I have the following array of hashes (at least my Dumper says so):

$VAR1 = [ { 'textfeldMini' => ' ', 'fragebogen_id' => '4388', 'aktivitaet_da +ta_id' => '48541093', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '4854109 +1' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4389', 'aktivitaet_data_id' => '48541094', ' +zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '48541091' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4390', 'aktivitaet_data_id' => '48541095', ' +zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '48541091' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4391', 'textfeldStandard' => ' ', 'aktivitae +t_data_id' => '48541096', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '485 +41091' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4392', 'textfeldStandard' => ' ', 'aktivitae +t_data_id' => '48541097', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '485 +41091' }, { 'textfeldMini' => ' ', 'fragebogen_id' => '4393', 'aktivitaet_da +ta_id' => '48541098', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '4854109 +1' }, { 'textfeldMini' => 'k.A.', 'fragebogen_id' => '4394', 'aktivitaet +_data_id' => '48541099', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '4854 +1091' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4395', 'textfeldStandard' => ' ', 'aktivitae +t_data_id' => '48541100', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '485 +41091' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4396', 'textfeldStandard' => ' ', 'aktivitae +t_data_id' => '48541101', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '485 +41091' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4397', 'textfeldStandard' => ' ', 'aktivitae +t_data_id' => '48541102', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '485 +41091' }, { 'textfeldMini' => 'k.A.', 'fragebogen_id' => '4398', 'aktivitaet +_data_id' => '48541103', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '4854 +1091' }, { 'fragebogen_id' => '4399', 'textfeldStandard' => ' ', 'aktivitae +t_data_id' => '48541104', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '485 +41091' }, { 'datumfeld' => '2000-01-01T00:00:00+01:00', 'fragebogen_id' => ' +4400', 'aktivitaet_data_id' => '48541105', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'akti +vitaetId' => '48541091' }, { 'datumfeld' => '2000-01-01T01:00:00+01:00', 'fragebogen_id' => ' +4401', 'aktivitaet_data_id' => '48541106', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'akti +vitaetId' => '48541091' }, { 'textfeldClob' => ' ', 'fragebogen_id' => '4402', 'aktivitaet_da +ta_id' => '48541107', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '4854109 +1' }, { 'textfeldClob' => ' ', 'fragebogen_id' => '4403', 'aktivitaet_da +ta_id' => '48541108', 'zahlfeld' => '0.0', 'aktivitaetId' => '4854109 +1' } ];

and I would like to foreach-loop through it like so:

1136 foreach my $data (@aktData) 1137 { 1138 if ($data->{'fragebogen_id'} == $feedbackId) 1139 { 1140 #doStuff 1141 } 1142 }

but I get an error "Not a HASH reference at ... line 1138".
I did a Dumper print on @aktData as well as $data and both times I get this hash array as output, which means the error message is accurate, but I have no clue, why $data is not one element of my array, but the whole array itself.

Can somebody please help me with this?


In reply to Cannot use foreach on array of hashes by MeinName

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