Thanks for your reply Joseph, I am reading perlref now. If you can offer some pointers on how to access the key value pairs of the reference object %item. I would appreciate it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Joseph Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William Martell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:20 AM Subject: Re: Fixed Length Text Extract, Write to Excel > William Martell wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I am trying to work with the code I have to extract fields from a text file report, and write the values into excel. > > > > I am having trouble. > > > > When I get to push @order_detail, %item > > I understand that this is pushing an associative array onto a list. (array > > of hashes) > > That is the problem, a list cannot contain a hash. The keys and values of the hash simply become flattened into list > elements, and all the hashing magic is lost. > > perldoc perlref > > will explain how references can help resolve this problem.. > > Joseph > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
