I have a HASH where each key contains an Object, but when I run loop to update the contents of the object it tries to call the method from the different object to the one I'm updating (hope my object oriented teminology is correct). For example:

the Hash is structured:
'file'<br>
DT_File=HASH(0x3211db4)<br>
   'Dedupe_level' => undef<br>
   'Delimiter' => ','<br>
   'Display_Record' => ARRAY(0x185becc)<br>
        empty array<br>
   'Header' => 1<br>
   'Header_Record' => ARRAY(0x185bc80)<br>
        empty array<br>
   'Name' => 'current'<br>
   'Record' => 1<br>
<br>
'Salutation'<br>
Salutation=HASH(0x3212924)<br>
   'Dear' => 1<br>
   'Fullname1' => ''<br>
   'Fullname2' => ''<br>
   'Initial1' => ''<br>
   'Initial2' => ''<br>
   'Sal_file' => 'current'<br>
   'Surname1' => ''<br>
   'Surname2' => ''<br>
   'Title1' => ''<br>
   'Title2' => ''<br>

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where 'file' and 'Salutation' are the HASH keys and 'DT_File' and 'Salutation' are the objects

The code below cycles through the methods for each object and updates it with a new value from a master object. The problem I have is that the first loop which updates elements for the 'DT_File' object, errors saying that it cannot find the method in the 'Salutation' object? 
#@file_parameters contains object method names
foreach my $param (@file_parameters){<br>
    $current{'file'} -> $param($source_file{$key}->$param);<br>
}

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can anyone tell me why the code thinks I am looking for the method in the 'Salutation' object rather than the 'DT_File' object?

Thanks

In reply to Object selection query by Kraythorne

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