courierb, may I just make a few things clear?

Thank you. I realize you are new here, so I'll try to be gentle. First, this is an online *community*. Like a real-life community, it has a social structure, with social rules. Break those rules and you can expect... well, nothing good.

In your post you've broken several of those rules, and many of us find this annoying.

Let me make a few requests. If you want to be a part of this particular community, you will have to abide by The Rules. I'm sorry, there is no other way.

• Don't write in all capitals. Ever. It's hard to read, and it's very distracting.
• Please try to ask *clearly* for what you want. I suspect you are not a native speaker of English, so most of us will try to give some grace and allow for that
• Also, it appears you (courierb) switch to posting anonymously part-way through your own thread. This makes it hard to follow for others - who is saying what?

That said, thank you for posting your code. That is the single most helpful thing one can do when asking for help around here. :)

sorry Monk. i will follow your rules here. forgive me as i really not familar here. . sorry again. i will carefully read your advice and suggestion again.

i have tested. that data has been passed into $incomedat sucessfully.

So what exactly does it contain? You still haven't shown the output of

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $incomingdata;
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If it's something like

$VAR1 = [
          {
            'quantity' => 1,
            'name' => 'abc1'
          },
          {
            'quantity' => 2,
            'name' => 'abc2'
          }
        ];
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you probably want line 5 to read

my @partofcookie= @$incomingdata;
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Dear almut. yes you are right.

i just try to pass $incomedata in to the sub.
which is part of cookie .
and i save it as a sting in mysql db.
but i know it looks like below without square brackets

$VAR1 = 
          {
            'quantity' => 1,
            'name' => 'abc1'
          },
          {
            'quantity' => 2,
            'name' => 'abc2'
          }
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should i format it to



   $VAR1 = [      {
            'quantity' => 1,
            'name' => 'abc1'
          },
          {
            'quantity' => 2,
            'name' => 'abc2'
          }
        ];
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is it a string format?
sorry for my silly queestion .
is it ok to pass a string to the sub ? the scirpt is taken partially from sample code of cgi::session cookbook
http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/CGI-Session-3.94/Session/CookBook.pm



   
 sub display_cart {
        my ($cgi, $session) = @_;

        # getting the cart's contents
        my $cart = $session->param("CART") || [];
        my $total_price = 0;
        my $RV = q~<table><tr><th>Title</th><th>Price</th></tr>~;

        if ( $cart ) {
            for my $product ( @{$cart} ) {
                $total_price += $product->{price};
                $RV = qq~
                    <tr>
                        <td>$product->{name}</td>
                        <td>$product->{price}</td>
                    </tr>~;
            }
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.............the rest of code has been omitted from here

i will give it a try after right after my pc is back to normal according your advice.

thank you very much

should i format it to

The former is not valid Perl - it doesn't compile. The latter is valid Perl. Neither looks like a string. Is the input to your subroutine a string? Does the content of the string look like Data::Dumper output? Or is the input to your subroutine a reference to an array of references to hashes, each with quantity and name keys?

is it a string format?

Since I can't examine the input to your subroutine I can't tell you whether it is a string. You are the only one who has access to your subroutine input to determine what it is. If you want help, you must determine what the input is and post that information. It does no good to ask people who don't know and can't find out except by asking you.

is it ok to pass a string to the sub?

It is OK as long as the string contains the required information and the subroutine is written to process that information appropriately. Otherwise the subroutine will not produce the required output.

OH.... it still return me blank screen.
even i change my @partofcookie= @$incomingdata;

foreach my $product ( @partofcookie) { .....blah blah..

if i am using wrong data type.
i shoudl not pass a string data to foreach loop?
looks like i fall down again bfore the dawn....dawn

help me pleseeeeeeeeeee

i have change the data and make it reads like $VAR1 = {'quantity' => 1,'name' => 'abc1' },{'quantity' => 2, 'name' => 'abc2'};

got blank screen again........

Dear sir

in regards to  
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $incomingdata;

I really do not know how to put it in as the core code of the main pro
+gramme is too difficult for me.....

but  i have test it in this way

sub { # 
# splits them up into stuff like "{name => 'name222',colour => 'yellow
+'}" 
#my @split = (split /\Q},{/, $_[0]); 
#my $value = $split[0];
my $value = $_[0]; 

return($value);
}

then i use a template tag to print its data out 
it looks exactly the same as it shored in db


[{'quantity' => 1,'name' => 'abc1' }, {'quantity' => 2,
 'name' => 'abc2'}]
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