I'm using the following code to select rows from a table, modify the contents (formatting a number) then I want to send it to HTML::Template to use in a LOOP and print out in a table... my problem is that, once I modify the data, I don't know how to get the hash into an array so that it will work in HTML::Template.

Current code:
        my $statement = "SELECT name, number, nw, land, strat, last_up
+dated, ownerID 
                        FROM someTable                  ORDER BY numbe
+r ASC";
        $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement);                             
+ 
        $sth->execute() or die "Can't execute the query: $sth->errstr"
+;
        my $ref = $sth->fetchall_hashref('number');
        for my $key( %$ref ) {                                  
            $ref->{$key}->{nw} = addComma( $ref->{$key}->{nw} );
        }                            
        my $countries = $sth->rows();
        $sth->finish;

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What I use to do was do something like this: 
my $rows = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(".....");

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then simply send $rows to the Template. But because I have to modify the data, I don't know how to get it back into a format that the template will accept.

P.S. "number" is the key field in the table. Is that what I should be using how I am, in this line: 
my $ref = $sth->fetchall_hashref('number');

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?
Could someone please enlighten me?

Thank you so much!


Steny

edit (broquaint): added <code> tags

In reply to Sending hash to HTML::Template by Steny

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