Not an array reference Twitter API

neelakash21 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

use Net::Twitter;
use Scalar::Util 'blessed';
use Net::Twitter::Search;


# When no authentication is required:
my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(legacy => 0);

$consumer_key = "x";
$consumer_secret = "y";
$token = "z";
$token_secret = "w";

# As of 13-Aug-2010, Twitter requires OAuth for authenticated requests
my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(
    traits   => [qw/OAuth API::REST/],
    consumer_key        => $consumer_key,
    consumer_secret     => $consumer_secret,
    access_token        => $token,
    access_token_secret => $token_secret,
);

my $twitter = Net::Twitter::Search->new();

my $results = $twitter->search('smoking');


foreach my $tweet (@{$results}) {
    my $speaker =  $tweet->{from_user};
    my $text = $tweet->{text};
    my $time = $tweet->{created_at};
    print "$time <$speaker> $text\n";
}
}
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I am new to perl. I am getting an error "Not an ARRAY reference at line #" for the above code. Can anyone please help me with this problem?

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Re: Not an array reference Twitter API by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 12, 2012 at 21:14 UTC
`$results` isn't a reference to an array, so you can't loop through it. According to the Net::Twitter documentation, it's a reference to a hash. This hash has a key "results", the value of which is an array ref, so you can loop through it. You probably want something like... `foreach my $tweet ( @{$results->{results}} ) { printf( "%s <%s> %s\n", $tweet->{created_at}, $tweet->{from_user}, $tweet->{text}, ); }` [download] `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Not an array reference Twitter API by neelakash21 (Initiate) on Sep 13, 2012 at 21:21 UTC
Thanks for pointing it out. Your code works perfectly.	[reply]
Re: Not an array reference Twitter API by Voronich (Hermit) on Sep 13, 2012 at 14:32 UTC
As an aside, you're going to want to edit that post so that your key information isn't showing. I'd recommend replacing them with Xs or something.	[reply]
Re^2: Not an array reference Twitter API by neelakash21 (Initiate) on Sep 13, 2012 at 21:22 UTC
Thanks! I don't know how I forgot to mask that information! I have fixed it now.	[reply]
Re^3: Not an array reference Twitter API by Anonymous Monk on Apr 15, 2013 at 20:03 UTC
hi this code return to me 15 tweets on one day by hashtag i want to have all tweets by week pleaase help me	[reply]