in reply to Class::DBI not giving me what I need!

I think you are missing the

$obj = Class->retrieve( %key_values );

In your case, that would be something like:

 foreach my $Contact(InContact::cDBI::contact->contact_detail(recontac
+t => $tm)){
      my @cols= $Contact->columns;
}

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