On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 03:00 +0100, Dermot wrote:
> I was struggling with this before I left work. In a line like
> print "Starting with ", $self->[0]->{type},"\n";
>
> I got
>
> Starting with HASH(x0023408)
>
> Not what as I was hoping for. Perhaps I was calling it correctly.
>
You are calling it correctly and that is the correct result. To see
inside a variable, use the debugger or Data::Dumper. Example:
use Data::Dumper;
print "Starting with ", Dumper $self->[0]->{type};
See `perldoc Data::Dumper` for details.
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Shawn
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