(Sorry for the long delay; I got bushwhacked by Real Life, but managed to survive it.)

I'd tried using selectall_hashref originally - that is, in fact, the first approach I tried - but I recall being unsatisfied with the output. I just went back and reproduced what I'd done then, and the problem turns out to be that either the docs don't tell you how to do what I need to do, or it just can't be done with selectall_hashref. In short, here are the problems:

1) Remapping that hashref into the arrayref that I want isn't any easier than what I was looking for - unless I've missed something.

2) The output format is... graceless. Perhaps it is, as you say, that I'm missing something - but I want two columns as an arrayref keyed by date, and what selectall_hashref returns is 

'2007-05-13' => {
          subject => 'foobar',
          date    => '2007-05-13',   # Erm...
          label   => 'xyz'
}

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The statement that I'm using is one I showed previously: 

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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If you can show me how to do this better with selectall_hashref, I'd be grateful.

In reply to Re^4: Elegance, dammit! by oko1
in thread Elegance, dammit! by oko1

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