while(my($key,$val)=each %item){ #do stuff } HTH,
José. -----Original Message----- From: William Martell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:46 PM To: R. Joseph Newton; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fixed Length Text Extract, Write to Excel 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> **** DISCLAIMER **** "This e-mail and any attachment thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by other persons than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer". Thank you for your cooperation. For further information about Proximus mobile phone services please see our website at http://www.proximus.be or refer to any Proximus agent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>