definitely forgot to post my code. sorry.

at this point i've tried creating a subroutine that is attempting to do this:

sub delete_thefruits

my $collection;
my $criteria;

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for (ref $entry){ ## i think this will check for the type being input 
+by the user
when ('fruitdb::name') {
$collection = $FRUIT_NAMES;
$criteria->(name) = $entry->{data}{name};

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If i create a similar function to the above, another one which only deals with the fruitIDs table, would perl understand to differentiate between the two?? or would I need to illustrate that programmatically? 
$collection-> remove(criteria); ## this will hopefully eventually remo
+ve one entry whether it's fruit name or fruitID
}

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In reply to Re^2: Creating a perl delete statement with MongoDB by e0s
in thread Creating a perl delete statement with MongoDB by e0s

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