Re: creating a hash list from arrays

From: Radhika Sambamurti (radhika_at_schemamania.org)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:40:33 -0500
To: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>

Hmmm, This did not work.
my $count = keys %results_hash; gives me 0
And perl also complained that $results_hash had to be explicitly defined, so I had my $results_hash AND my %results_hash.
This is not working. my hash is empty.

Radhika

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:24:28 -0600
Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote:

> --On Monday, October 27, 2003 21:22 -0600 Daniel Staal
> <DStaal@usa.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > my $results_hash;
>
> Sorry, correction. That should be:
>
> my %results_hash;
>
> > while (my $res = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
> > push(@menu_id, $res->{"menu_item_number"});
> > push(@menu_desc, $res->{"description"});
> > $results_hash = ($res->{"menu_item_number"},
> > $res->{"description"});
> > }
> >
> > Then the hash won't expire at the end of the loop.
>
> Daniel T. Staal
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