hi felix
the exists check works nicely :)
but i cant get the print to work, using my version of your sub:
sub print_record
{
my ( $record_key ) = @_;
my $record;
my $records;
# read in records
$records = &read_recordfile;
foreach $record ( keys %{ $records->{ $record_key } } ) {
print "debug" . join('', @{ $records->{ $record_key }{ $record } } );
}
return $record
}
$record_key is passed to the subroutine ok (i did check). and the records are read (i
did check using Data::Dumper)
> print_record($records, 'bleh');
>
> sub print_record {
> my $source = shift;
> my $key = shift;
>
> return unless exists $source->{$key};
> print "Contents of record with primary key $key:\n";
> foreach my $field (sort keys %{$source->{$key}}) {
> print "\t$field: ";
> print "[" .
> join(", ", @{$source->{$key}{$field}}) .
> "]\n" ;
> }
> print "\n";
> return;
> }
>
> But I have a question: what is the functional difference between
> "[]" and "['']" in your columns?
good question. i have a hash of hashes of arrays. i want to be able, later on, to push
more values on each secondary hash key - hence the array [''].
martin
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