my $hash = (
    'id'        =>$ref->{"id"},
    'user_id'   =>$ref->{"user_id"},
    'username'  =>$ref->{"username"},
    'password'  =>$ref->{"password"},
    'pin'       =>$ref->{"pin"},
    'position'  =>$ref->{"position"},
    'forename'  =>$ref->{"forename"},
    'lastname'  =>$ref->{"lastname"},
    'business'  =>$ref->{"business"},
    'address1'  =>$ref->{"address1"},
    'address2'  =>$ref->{"address2"},
    'city'      =>$ref->{"city"},
    'state'     =>$ref->{"state"},
    'zip'       =>$ref->{"zip"},
    'phone_home'=>$ref->{"phone_home"},
    'phone_cell'=>$ref->{"phone_cell"},
    'email'     =>$ref->{"email"},
    'comments'  =>$ref->{"comments"},
    'MJ'        =>$ref->{"MJ"},
    'MD'        =>$ref->{"MD"},
    'DD'        =>$ref->{"DD"},
    'DP'        =>$ref->{"DP"},
   );

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That's not how you initialize a hash reference.

Please consider reading tye's References Quick Reference and perlreftut to learn about how to construct references.

Also, the output of Dumper( $hash ) should have shown you that what you expect is not what Perl puts into $hash without the surroundings of your CGI script. Consider reducing code you don't understand to a bare minimum instead of testing things inside a CGI program.

In reply to Re^11: CGI Action call by Corion
in thread CGI Action call by tultalk

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