Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean... If that the server and client are separate processes, then you aren't really passing a hash from one to the other; you're passing a stream of bytes, which need to be split or parsed somehow into a hash (a series of key/value pairs) in the client.

Does the client receive a sequence of distinct hashes in a single stream? If so, how do you know the boundaries between hashes?

But the main question is: how do you know when you are finished reading? I would tend to use a "read()" call in this situation, or maybe sysread, and maybe play with ioctl's or fcntl's in order to do non-blocking reads from the server. Put all the input data into a scalar in the client, and after the reading is done (and there's time to process it), use unpack or split or whatever to break the stream up into the hash(es).

In reply to Re: Creating an array of hash references by graff
in thread Creating an array of hash references by Bobc

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