radhika wrote:
> > You could do it like this:
> >
> > while (@row = fetchrow_array()) {
> > push @$perl, {
> > TRADE_DATE => $row[0],
> > TRADE_TIME => $row[1],
> > FIRSTNAME => $row[2],
> > LASTNAME => $row[3],
> > EXCHANGE => $row[4],
> > SYMBOL => $row[5],
> > };
> > }
> >
>
> Thanks Bob! It worked and it seems like had to de-reference the
> array, am I right? Is that what the @$perl is doing? It worked, and
> now I am trying to understand why.
Yes. push() requires an array as the first argument. Which array? The array
referenced by $perl. You write that array like @$perl.
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