Hello Monks,

My HoH looks something like this: (exported with Data::Dumper) 


          '14194     ' => {
                            'city' => 'Denver                         
+       '
,
                            'id' => '14194     ',
                            'name' => 'Christopher
                          ',
                            'state' => 'CO'
                          },
          '11347     ' => {
                            'city' => 'Tannersville                   
+             '
,
                            'id' => '11347     ',
                            'name' => 'Brian
                          ',
                            'state' => 'NY'
                          }
        };

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As you can see I have trailing white spaces all over the place proliferated throughout the HoH. They're in the id, name and city, etc.. I want to remove all trailing whitespace, especially for the id, so what's the best way to clean up this messy data structure, specifically the key?

FYI, I'm fetching the data from MSSQL via DBI using the following: $data = $dbh->selectall_hashref($mssql, "id"); where $mssql is some sql that gets me the data required.

So my theory is that the data is improperly defined on the database itself, which leads to all these subtle nuances. Should I build SQL SP to clean it up before I extract it or is it easier to let perl practically extract it and list the rubbish in a readable and dereferancable format, without any obfuscation?



Thanks for your brotherly wisdom almighty Monastery!

-3dbc

In reply to HoH keys with trailing white spaces ???? by 3dbc

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