Re: can't coerce array into hash

[Philip Newton]

James Powell wrote:
> I'm trying to (as you might have guessed) coerce an array
> into a hash. This is from a data structure returned of CGI::Cookie.

So unroll it into an array, use that array to initialise an anonymous hash,
and dereference that anonymous hash.

> I'm sure it's a simple solution... I've been doing too much 
> php & c (sniff).
> 
> jp
> 
> 
> I've got
> 
>     my %cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie;
>     my @monkey = @{$cookies{jobsearch1}->{value}}; # works fine
>     my %tripitaka = @{$cookies{jobsearch1}->{value}}; # also 
> works fine
> #    my $boob = @{$cookies{jobsearch1}->{value}}->{d}; # 
> gives can't coercearray into hash

    $boob = {@{$cookies{jobsearch1}->{value}}}->{d};

Simple, innit? (Took me several tries, though :-))

Or like this:

    $hashref = {@{$cookies{jobsearch1}{value}}};
    $boob = $hashref->{d};
 
or like this:

    %hash = %{{@{$cookies{jobsearch1}{value}}}};
    # who said Perl looks like line noise?
    $boob = $hash{d};

Cheers,
Philip