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packing an array of hashes

by ccosner@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Cosner) Aug 7, 2007 at 04:47 PM

I've re-read perlref and have been trying to tease an answer out of the 
Perl Cookbook.

If you put a hash reference into an array
     push @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \%hash;
you do not store any actual hash data in the array.
So if you change the hash, then later pull the hash reference from the 
array and access it, you get changed data.
If you do this in a loop, you store an array of references to the exact 
same hash, rather than lots of different hashes.
At least, this seems to be what's happening to me in the pseudo code
below:

Question: Is there an efficient way (resembling push @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \%hash) to 
do this that will work? Or do I need to 'unpack' the hash into key => 
value notation to truly add the hash as an element in an array?

while ( condition ) {
     (add data to %address)
     push @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \%address;
     # print statement here shows the hash is different each time 
through the loop
}

for (@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
){
     %h = %{$_};
     for (keys %h) {
         print "$_ = $h{$_}\n";
        # print statement here prints the same hash over and over
     }


Thanks,

-Chris
 




 5 Posts in Topic:
packing an array of hashes
ccosner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-08-07 16:47:06 
Re: packing an array of hashes
shawnhcorey@[EMAIL PROTEC  2007-08-07 20:01:12 
Re: packing an array of hashes
ccosner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-08-07 17:27:11 
Re: packing an array of hashes
rcook@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2007-08-08 10:01:27 
Re: packing an array of hashes
mritty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2007-08-08 10:26:45 

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