Hey all...

I think I've found a stumbling block for myself, but I'd like to find out if there's something I don't know before I start making lots of changes.

We recently changed column names to a shorter format, and in most of our code we are currently using a "table.column" format.

I have been a big fan of fetchrow_hashref for a while, and so I've used it in many, many, many places.

So now, when I get my hash back, the keys look like this:

"address_1"
"city"
"state"

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...when I need them to look like this:

"address.address_1"
"address.city"
"address.state"

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The two changes I am considering are to: 1)use a fetchrow_array, and list my values out; or 2)use " AS " in my SELECT statements. I hate both options.

Is there a way to tell MySQL and/or the DBI that I want the table.column format in my hash keys?

There is another question out there that is similar to mine, but the answer wasn't what I was looking for, and I just want to know if there is a better solution for me.

Here is that link:

How do I get "table.column" format from a select/join?

Thanks so much,
Dale

In reply to fetchrow_hashref, and table.column format by bigperm

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