I keep doing stuff like this when I have to get a whole bunch of fields from a database and I want to not use hashref since I know array ref is faster.

Basically I make a select query and then get the array back and then dump each element from the array into the variable I need.

I thought about making an array of the fields and looping though the result array, but there probably is some magic answer I can't figure out.

thanks in advance 

    my $sqlQuery = "SELECT Object_ID,
                                    ID,
                                    Script_Name,
                                    Sql_Name,
                                    Min_Length,
                                    Max_Length,
                                    Char_Regex,
                                    Char_Allowed,
                                    Key_Test_Type,
                                    Key_Test_Table,
                                    Key_Test_Field,
                                    Update_Allowed,
                                    Display_Transform,
                                    Update_Transform,
                                    FieldType,
                                    FieldDataSource,
                                    Display_Order
                      FROM OM_ObjectMetaData
                     WHERE OM_ObjectMetaData.Object_ID = ?";

                     
    #print "<!-- $sqlQuery -->\n\n\n\n\n";
                     
    my $query = $dbh->prepare( $sqlQuery );

    $query->execute( $self->{ID} ) || die $dbh->errstr;
   
      
   
   while( @result_array = $query->fetchrow_array )
    {
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Object_ID}         = $result
+_array[0]; 
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{ID}                = $result
+_array[1];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Script_Name}       = $result
+_array[2];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Sql_Name}          = $result
+_array[3];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Min_Length}            = $re
+sult_array[4];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Max_Length}           = $res
+ult_array[5];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Char_Regex}           = $res
+ult_array[6];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Char_Allowed}       = $resul
+t_array[7];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Key_Test_Type}        = $res
+ult_array[8];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Key_Test_Table}    = $result
+_array[9];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Key_Test_Field}    = $result
+_array[10];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Update_Allowed}    = $result
+_array[11];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Display_Transform} = $result
+_array[12];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Update_Transform}  = $result
+_array[13];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{FieldType}         = $result
+_array[14];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{FieldDataSource}   = $result
+_array[15];
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{DisplayOrder}      = $result
+_array[16];
        
        $self->{fields}{$result_array[2]}{Value}  = "";
 
        $self->{display_order}{$result_array[16]} = $result_array[2];
        
      }

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