I'm afraid that doesn't work for me, ysth. 'selectall' rather than 'selectcol' is the deal-killer here (I don't see the need for fetching the entire content of that table, extracting the columns, and then doing all this processing.)

This gets me exactly the info I need - although the structure is a little different from what I want: 

my @ref = @{
    $dbh->selectcol_arrayref(
        "select date, label, subject from travel
         where date>= curdate()-5 order by date",
         {Columns=>[1,2,3]}
    )
};

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I do indeed appreciate your attempt to approach it from a broader viewpoint - I try not to lose track of the fact that stepping back can be as important as focusing down when trying to solve a problem. [Grin] Hell, my wife is Japanese-American. She'd beat my butt if I was ever so silly as to lose track of context.

In reply to Re^2: Elegance, dammit! by oko1
in thread Elegance, dammit! by oko1

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