HELP! - trouble returning values

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

My function call looks like this... my $mailbox = $conn->getMailboxAvailablity ( DOMAIN => $UserDomainName MAILBOX_LIST => $UserLoginName) Regardless of what the function looks like, it's returning HASH(0x222b4c) instead of a "T" or an "F" like I expect. Does anybody know why? Is that the right way to return a string value to my $mailbox variable?

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Re: HELP! - trouble returning values by Adam (Vicar) on Sep 22, 2000 at 20:58 UTC
Please wrap code in <code> code tags </code> `my $mailbox = $conn->getMailboxAvailablity ( DOMAIN => $UserDomainName MAILBOX_LIST => $UserLoginName)` [download] if $mailbox is HASH(0x222b4c) then getMailboxAvailability() is returning a hash reference. You need to dereference it. The clearest way (but definately not the only way or even the best way... TIMTOWTDI) is like this: `my %dereferenced_hash = %{$hash_reference}; # of course, you can also access elements via the ref directly: print "yeah\n" if exists $$hashref{'key2'}; # or even print "insufficient\n" unless $hashref->{'balance'} > $request;` [download] But your question is a bit vague so I'm not sure what you are asking. You didn't post a complete subroutine, so I don't know what's really going on. But at least I can tell you how to deal with HASH(0x222b4c)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: HELP! - trouble returning values by ncw (Friar) on Sep 22, 2000 at 21:02 UTC
Which module are you trying to use? If that is real code you pasted then there is a comma missing after $UserDomainName. I suspect it isn't real code though, so could you make a short example and update your question with it so we can help further?	[reply]


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