Re^5: Parsing HTML into various files

I don't know what you were trying to do, but { @table } IS an anonymous hash with an odd number (1) of elements.

Maybe you intended

$hash{$key} = \@table;
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Re^6: Parsing HTML into various files by bart (Canon) on Aug 25, 2010 at 18:38 UTC
I don't know what you were trying to do, but { @table } IS an anonymous hash with an odd number (1) of elements. Only if `@table` contains an odd number of elements. That implies there's something fishy with her HTML. The HTML I used as an example consists of a table with 4 columns, where column 1 and 3 are attribute names (to be used as hash keys) and columns 2 and 4 are attribute values (to be used as hash values). Maybe you intended `$hash{$key} = \@table;` [download] No, if she did that, every hash value would be a reference to the same hash. The intention is to turn the current list of name/value pairs into a hash. Something like: `@table = ( foo => 10, bar => 20 ); $hashref = { @table };` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^6: Parsing HTML into various files
by bart (Canon) on Aug 25, 2010 at 18:38 UTC

I don't know what you were trying to do, but { @table } IS an anonymous hash with an odd number (1) of elements.

@table

The HTML I used as an example consists of a table with 4 columns, where column 1 and 3 are attribute names (to be used as hash keys) and columns 2 and 4 are attribute values (to be used as hash values).

Maybe you intended
$hash{$key} = \@table;
[download]

The intention is to turn the current list of name/value pairs into a hash. Something like:

@table = ( foo => 10, bar => 20 );
$hashref = { @table };
[download]

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]