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> While this is being used in a cgi, it's really more of a general perl
> question. But I'm hoping I can get some help.
>
> I have a hash which has arrays of arrays as the value for each key:
> $tabset = 'clientInfo';
> %tabsets = (
> clientInfo => [('#', 'View Contact Information', 'Contact
> Information'),
> ('#', 'View the Job Log', 'Job Log'),
> ('#', 'View the Client Assets', 'Client
> Assets'),
> ('#', 'View Press Releases', 'Press Releases')
> ],
> ); # data simplified and other keys removed...
>
As your questions below state the above "lists" are getting flattened
into one array. You need to reuse [] to build anonymous array
references like you did in the outer structure. So you end up with:
%hash = ( 'key1' => [ [ '#1', 'View1', 'Title1',
'#2', 'View2', 'Title2' ],
> I want to be able to first get the array of arrays that matches a key,
> keeping it as an array of arrays., then do a for each loop, keeping
> access to the array of that array item (OK, bad description, I know...):
>
> (here's where things go awry)
>
> if (exists($tabsets{$tabset})) {
> my @$tabs = @{$tabsets{$tabset}}; #this isn't right....
>
> foreach my @tab (@tabs) { #of course this isn't correct syntax, but
> should illustrate what I intend to do
> print "<a href=\"$tab[0]\" title=\"$tab[1]">$tab[2]</a>\n";
> }
> } else {
> &explode();
> }
>
>
>
> What really happens will be a bit more complex, but that is the basic
> logical structure is what I want. But I rapidly get confused in what's
> a reference, and how to refer to something without flattening my
> 2-dimensional array into a flat array (so that the above array with 4
> items which are each an array of 3 items ends up being a single array
> of 12 items).
>
> So, the questions are, how do I handle the references so I can maintain
> the 2-dimensional-ness of my hash values, but still access them by key,
> and then how do I use each item, which is an array, in a foreach loop?
>
> TIA
>
>
>
>
> Chad A Gard
> http://www.percussionadvocates.com/chad
>
>
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