Hello Monks, I created an object that returns an array but I am having problems dereferencing that array and storing its data in a hash. I called 'ref' on $data and it printed out ARRAY. The print statement inside the foreach loop does print out the data correctly. However the print statement at the end of the function prints out a 1. I want it so when i print the hash the unreferenced data shows up instead of a reference to an array. Thank you :) 


sub cycleForLibs{
    my ($fileDirectory, $scopeName, $fileName, $modelName) = @_;

    my $fileLoader = Loader->new( $fileName, $fileDirectory, $scopeNam
+e, $modelName);
    my $data = $fileLoader->{'data'};

        print ref $data;

    if(defined $data){
        foreach my $line ($data){
            print "Line: @$line \n";
            $exportLibs{$scopeName} = @$line;
        }    
    }

    print Dumper $exportLibs{$scopeName};

}

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In reply to Defereferncing an array gathered from an object by victorz22

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