It's a perl language thing. fetchrow_hashref returns a hashref, not a
hash. You can also use the following two syntaxes, which may make more
sense to you:
The same thing, more explicitly:
> fieldname: [+ ${$hashed_row}{'fieldname'} +]<br>
Syntactic sugar, everyones favorite treat:
> fieldname: [+ $hashed_row->{'fieldname'} +]<br>
Ed
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Richard Schilling wrote:
> Just a quick question, and perhaps it's a Perl language question. I
> forget, but why do you have to reference a hash with a double "$$" when
> you use fetchrow_hashref?
>
> [-
> use DBI;
>
> # code to open connection, run query, etc . . .
> -]
>
> [$ if $hashed_row = $query->fetchrow_hashref $]
> fieldname: [+ $$hashed_row{'fieldname'} +]<br>
> [$ endif $]
>
> Don't know why but for some reason I'm drawing a blank . . .
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Richard
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