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in reply to Printing first element of an array in worksheet

Look at this line:

@redi = $responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris}

What does $responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris} contain? Does it contain an array reference? You are assigning that array reference to @redi so that @redi contains:

@redi = ( [....], );

It contains a single element. That element is a reference to an array. You should have done one of two things. Either this:

@redi = @{$responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris}}

...or this:

$redi = $responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris} # and then... for my $i (0..$#$redi) { $worksheet->write($r, 6, [$redi->[$i]]); }

The first one is an easier change, the second one is a little more memory efficient.

See perlreftut, and perllol, perhaps.


Dave

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Re^2: Printing first element of an array in worksheet
by chandantul (Scribe) on Dec 09, 2020 at 19:47 UTC

    Its printing the single element only after trying 2nd option

      Your due diligence includes validating assumptions (sometimes just peppering code with print and print Dumper statements), and taking the time to understand the solutions presented.

      I mentioned in the original post that I assumed that $responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris} contained an array reference. You could confirm that like this:

      print ref($responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris}), "\n";

      Which should print:

      ARRAY

      If it doesn't, your question was misleading. That's fine. If you use Data::Dumper you should be able to get better insight into what your data structure actually looks like:

      use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris};

      If the output to that is anything besides an array ref, you'll have to adjust how you're unpacking it later on.

      I composed the following test to verify that my solution works as intended (after removing the in, which must have sneaked in from some recent Python work):

      #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my @responsetextall; $responsetextall[0][0]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris} = [qw(foo bar baz)] +; print ref($responsetextall[0][0]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris}), "\n"; my $redi; $redi = $responsetextall[0][0]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris}; for my $i (0 .. $#$redi) { print $redi->[$i], "\n"; }

      The output is:

      ARRAY foo bar baz

      So it is working, and is printing more than a single element. Also, your for loop is not the Perl way of doing things. If you don't need to care about the index, just iterate over the list:

      for my $element (@$redi) { print "$element\n"; }

      Nicer, right? Please look at perlref, perlreftut, and the REFERENCES section of perlcheat for additional information on how to manipulate references. perlsyn and perlintro should have more discussion on for or foreach loops.


      Dave

        I am receiving all the elements from $responsetextall$i$j{set}{Client}{redirect_uris}; which was ARRAY of ARRAY references

        $responsetextall[$i][$j]{set}{Client}{redirect_uris};

        The issue is its not writing all the elements in single cell of a worksheet and its writing in separate cells. like the following 'http://abcd01.cpu.comp.com:80/AutosysPortal/' 'http://abcd01.cpu.comp.com:80/Da/', 'http://abcd01.cpu.comp.com:80/Ge/', 'http://abcd01.cpu.comp.com:80/PO/', 'http://abcd01.cpu.comp.com:80/g Can we split through "|" and put it into single cell?