i'm getting sick of creating almost the same subroutines over and over again, but the details *seem* different enough that i can't quite get away with AUTOLOAD ... and the immediate new level of abstraction (that I can see) would require a configuration hash ... a step i don't think really helps.

basically, i have a handful of routines that pull values out of a database and create an anon array of hashrefs to pass into HTML::Template:

sub _getBuilderList {
        my $self = shift;
        my $selection = shift;

        my $sth = $self->param('DBH')->prepare("SELECT id, buildername
+ FROM builder ORDER BY buildername" );
        $sth->execute();
        my $cities;
        while ( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() ) {
                $row->{SELECTED}++ if $row->{id} == $selection;
                push @$cities, $row;
        }
        return $cities;
}

sub _getSchoolList {
        my $self = shift;
        my $selection = shift;

        my $sth = $self->param('DBH')->prepare("SELECT schoolname FROM
+ school ORDER BY schoolname" );
        $sth->execute();
        my $cities;
        while ( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() ) {
                $row->{SELECTED}++ if $row->{schoolname} eq $selection
+;
                push @$cities, $row;
        }
        return $cities;
}

sub _buildGenericSelect {

        my ( $self, $max, $selection ) = @_;
        my $array;
        foreach my $number ( ( 1 .. $max ) ) {
                my $row;
                $row->{VALUE} = $number;
                $row->{SELECTED}++ if $number == $selection;
                push @$array, $row;
        }

        return $array;
}
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and so on.

the end result is a select menu using the anon array as a TMPL_LOOP

some of them use name as the option value, others use a numeric value ... ( the data's a mess, but it's coming from another datasource ... )

i wonder if there's a quicker way to do it (rather than to keep creating a new 'accessor' every time.

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