You're very welcome, I'm glad it worked.

A little more info on when you said "is ALMOST an Array of Hashes". When printing with Data::Dumper, you always pass in a reference to the structure you're printing, so if the outermost part of the structure is an array (), it'll automatically get converted to [] in the output as you've passed in a reference to the array. In fact, the API itself returns the array as a reference in the first place, so you wouldn't need to take a reference to it when passing it into Dumper. These are equivalent when referring to Data::Dumper...

my @array = (1, 2, 3);
print Dumper \@array;

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my $aref = [1, 2, 3];
print Dumper $aref;

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So it is really an Array of Hashes (AoH), it just looks a tiny bit different when the outermost part of the structure is a reference. You also need to access and use them slightly differently as well (by using dereference operators).

In reply to Re^3: Salesforce Data Parser by stevieb
in thread Salesforce Data Parser by bigdatageek

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