Edit forms use CGI and JavaScript?

Mission has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to edit a text file for a 'News Flash' application. I am reading in the text file, and parsing it into an array of structs. I can edit the file just fine, but I'm having issues saving the file (or perhaps it's the way that the structs work with arrays.) Here is a code sample where it hangs:

$news[$selectTitle]->title = $query->param('EditTitle');

$news[$selectTitle]->url = $query->param('EditURL');

$news[$selectTitle]->body = $query->param('EditBody');

$selectTitle is the array index of @news accessing the CGI form fields for data. The server doesn't seem to like it.

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Re: Edit forms use CGI and JavaScript? by arturo (Vicar) on Apr 09, 2001 at 23:03 UTC
If you're using an array of hashes (which is how I interpreted "structs", you C programmer you =), you need to wrap "title", "url", and "body" in curly braces, so perl knows those are hash keys, not method calls (e.g. `$foo->bar` looks like `$foo` is an object of which `bar()` is a method). HTH Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Edit forms use CGI and JavaScript? by Mission (Hermit) on Apr 09, 2001 at 23:10 UTC
HTH, Thanks. I thought about using hashes, but I wasn't comfortable using them with this project. I will consider that advice. As soon as I submited my question, I realized one of my mistakes. The code should have been written without the '=': $news[$selectTitle]->title($query->param('EditTitle')); I made the same mistake on Friday, and apparently hadn't learned my lesson yet. Thanks for the help. I still may consider the hashes. They seem more straight forward. *- Mission* "Heck I don't know how to do it either, but do you think that's going to stop me!"	[reply]