Dear almut. yes you are right.

i just try to pass $incomedata in to the sub.
which is part of cookie .
and i save it as a sting in mysql db.
but i know it looks like below without square brackets 
$VAR1 = 
          {
            'quantity' => 1,
            'name' => 'abc1'
          },
          {
            'quantity' => 2,
            'name' => 'abc2'
          }

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should i format it to 


   $VAR1 = [      {
            'quantity' => 1,
            'name' => 'abc1'
          },
          {
            'quantity' => 2,
            'name' => 'abc2'
          }
        ];

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is it a string format?
sorry for my silly queestion .
is it ok to pass a string to the sub ? the scirpt is taken partially from sample code of cgi::session cookbook
http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/CGI-Session-3.94/Session/CookBook.pm

   
 sub display_cart {
        my ($cgi, $session) = @_;

        # getting the cart's contents
        my $cart = $session->param("CART") || [];
        my $total_price = 0;
        my $RV = q~<table><tr><th>Title</th><th>Price</th></tr>~;

        if ( $cart ) {
            for my $product ( @{$cart} ) {
                $total_price += $product->{price};
                $RV = qq~
                    <tr>
                        <td>$product->{name}</td>
                        <td>$product->{price}</td>
                    </tr>~;
            }

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.............the rest of code has been omitted from here

i will give it a try after right after my pc is back to normal according your advice.

thank you very much

In reply to Re^4: WHAT IS WRONG TO PASS PARAMETER TO THE ARRAY? by Anonymous Monk
in thread WHAT IS WRONG TO PASS PARAMETER TO THE ARRAY? by courierb

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