Re^5: Problem with DBM hash of anonymous arrays

Yes this is wrong :-) It parses like:

   $PAHASH->{$key}->[$index]
#  hashref-> hash ->array
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While you want

   $PAHASH{$key}->[$index]
#  hash element ->array
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Which can also be written as

   $PAHASH{$key}[$index]
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update: Or maybe you want

  ${$PAHASH{$key}[$index]}
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If you really want the value as a reference to a scalar (I don't see the point of doing it)

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Re^6: Problem with DBM hash of anonymous arrays by travisbickle34 (Beadle) on May 17, 2005 at 13:16 UTC
Ah, cheers. I think I have it straight in my head now :-) I can get it to work with an ordinary hash table now, just not the DBM hash! Always problems!	[reply]
Re^7: Problem with DBM hash of anonymous arrays by Joost (Canon) on May 17, 2005 at 14:15 UTC
Oh yes, I forgot about that :-) I think can't story anything but strings in dbm values, and they're usually of limited length too. You might be better off using DBM::Deep "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^8: Problem with DBM hash of anonymous arrays by travisbickle34 (Beadle) on May 17, 2005 at 15:22 UTC
It looks like you're right - thanks! If only I knew how to implement it with DBM::Deep. Hopefully I'll pick it up fairly quickly...	[reply]