Re: [Templates] hashes and loops

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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Brandon Hall wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:10:20 -0700, Sean Kellogg
> <skellogg@x.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > Whenever I have passed an array like yours, I have found it best to push an
> > anonymous hash like this
> >
> > push @emails, { from => "fred", to => "wilma", subj => $subj , date =>
> > "today"};
> >
> > and then pass the array to the template with a slash.
> >
> > my $vars = {
> >         message  => "Hello World\n",
> >         emaillist => \@emails
> > };
>
> That solved it magnificently! Now i'm trying to clean it up so I don't
> have to specify the fields and I can cut and paste more code ...so. I
> wrote this using what I've learned. This snip works, but I don't think
> it's correct. I think there is a perl fudge making it work ;)
>
>    while (my $rowref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
>        foreach (my $href = $rowref) {
>            my %result = %{ $href };
>            push @notes, \%result;
>        }
>    }
>
> This way, in the template I can just use the database fields. eg,
> timestamp, id, param1, etc.

Perhaps I'm not following exactly what you're trying to do, but
could you just do this?

  push @notes, $rowref while my $rowref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref;

or if that doesn't work:

  while ( my $rowref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ) {
    push @notes, $rowref;
  }

I hope that helps.

Dave

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