Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Perl and am having problems with a hash problem and am getting the response -

"Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at line 49"

from my procedure. I am accessing a Notes database (holds telephone directory information) with this procedure included below. The commented out section (used against my mailbox) works fine - but the second section (used against the telephone directory database) gives the error...

If anyone has any hints/can give any help i would be grateful! Thanks,

Lewis Bishop.

PS - the preview of this message looks pretty bad - hope it doesn't come out that way!

use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Data::Dumper;

my %count;
my $Buffer;
my $Document;
my $DocCount;
my $FullName;
my $Extension;

my $cnt = 1;
my $Notes = Win32::OLE->new('Notes.NotesSession') or die "Cannot start
+ Lotus Notes Session object.\n";

my ($Version) = ($Notes->{NotesVersion} =~ /\s*(.*\S)\s*$/);
print "The current user is $Notes->{UserName}.\n";
print "Running Notes \"$Version\" on \"$Notes->{Platform}\".\n";

$cnt = 0;

#------------------this section does work correctly-------------------
+----------
#my $Database = $Notes->GetDatabase('GBLOSPK01', 'mail\\lbishop.nsf');
#my $AllDocuments = $Database->AllDocuments;
#my $Count = $AllDocuments->Count;
#print "There are $DocCount documents in the database.\n";
#for (my $Index = 1 ; $Index <= $Count ; ++$Index) {
#    my $Document = $AllDocuments->GetNthDocument($Index);
#    $Subject = $Document->GetFirstItem('Subject')->{Text};
#    $From = $Document->GetFirstItem('From')->{Text};
#    #$Body = $Document->Body();
#    if (index($From,"CN=") > -1) {
#      $From = substr($From,3);
#      if (index($From,"/OU=") > -1) {
#      $From = substr($From,0,index($From,"/OU="));
#      }
#    }
#    if ($Index < 415) {
#       print "$Index - From: $From - Subject: $Subject\n";
#       #print "BODY: $Body\n";
#   }
#}

#------------------this section does not work correctly---------------
+--------------

my $Database = $Notes->GetDatabase('GBLOSPK02', 'iddnames.nsf');
my $AllDocuments = $Database->AllDocuments;
my $Count = $AllDocuments->Count;
print "There are $DocCount documents in the database.\n";
for (my $Index = 1 ; $Index <= $Count ; ++$Index) {
  my $Document = $AllDocuments->GetNthDocument($Index);
  $FullName = $Document->GetFirstItem('FullName')->{Text};
  $Extension = $Document->GetFirstItem('Extension')->{Text};
  if ($Index < 145) {
    print "$FullName - $Extension\n";
  }
}

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Edited 2001-05-16 by mirod: added code and p tags

In reply to Hash problem. by Anonymous Monk

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