I tend to either use hashes or bound values more than arrays anyway.

I use HTML::Template quite a bit and often use the hashref/arrayref calls to match up with a template. For example: 

my @nodes = ();

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(q{
   SELECT node_id, title, body FROM node WHERE parent_id = ?
});

$sth->execute($parent_id);
while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
    push @nodes, $row;
}
$sth->finish;

foreach my $node (@nodes) {

    $sth->execute($node->{node_id});
    $node->{children} = $sth->fetchall_arrayref({
                            node_id => 1, title => 1
                        });
    $sth->finish;
}

$t->param(NODES => \@nodes);

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This is from some code that I'm hacking about at the moment, this matches up to a nested <TMPL_LOOP> in the template.

It's not designed for performance. If it isn't fast enough then there is loads of things I'd do before changing hashes to arrays...

gav^

In reply to Re: Using hashes instead of arrays with database results by gav^
in thread Using hashes instead of arrays with database results by trs80

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