Bad index while coercing array into hash

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

My code

print Dumper ($self->result->{Abcd});

  print "\n Platform ="; print Dumper ($self->result->{Abcd}->{Platfor
+m});
  print "\n abcdname ="; print Dumper ($self->result->{Abcd}->{AbcdNam
+e});
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output with error

$VAR1 = [
          {
            'Platform' => '12000',
            'AbcdName' => 'slhrno1',
            'DedicatedOption' => '-1',
            'ShortName' => 'BRYN1',
            'AFlag' => 'N',
            'AbcdId' => '47358',
            'Vendor' => 'MICROSOFT',
            'Type' => '21',
            'AliasName' => 'stlt',
            'ExportVersion' => 'US'
          }
        ];

 Platform =$VAR1 = undef;

 abcdname =Bad index while coercing array into hash at xxx.pm line 33
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I dont see 'AbcdName' as array, also 'Platform' got value of 12000 but output shows undef....

any help?

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Re: Bad index while coercing array into hash by kwaping (Priest) on Jun 08, 2007 at 22:58 UTC
Your `$self->result->{Abcd}` is actually an array of hashrefs. Try printing `$self->result->{Abcd}[0]{Platform}` instead. --- It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Bad index while coercing array into hash by Anonymous Monk on Jun 11, 2007 at 00:03 UTC
thanks kwaping, its working...	[reply]
Re^3: Bad index while coercing array into hash by Anonymous Monk on Aug 25, 2014 at 12:45 UTC
Can someone please help me on this : The output of the custom field when run via api query: "customfield_11872": [ { "self": "https://localhost.com:8080/rest/api/2/version/35372", "id": "35372", "description": "Null version. May be deleted after other conforming versions are created", "name": "0.0.0.0", "archived": false, "released": false } the command that i used is shown below: my $decoded_json = decode_json($result); $jira_found_in_release = "$decoded_json->{'fields'}{'customfield_11872'}{'name'}; When the customfield name value is null, I do not get any error but when the name field contains value such as 0.0.0.0 , i get bad index while corecing array into hash... Can someone please tell me how to store the value into $jira_found_in_release variable.	[reply]
Re^4: Bad index while coercing array into hash by Anonymous Monk on Aug 25, 2014 at 20:25 UTC
Re: Bad index while coercing array into hash by FunkyMonk (Chancellor) on Jun 08, 2007 at 20:46 UTC
`my $VAR1 = { 'Platform' => '12000', 'AbcdName' => 'slhrno1', 'Dedicate +dOption' => '-1', 'ShortName' => 'BRYN1', 'AFlag' => 'N', 'AbcdId' => + '47358', 'Vendor' => 'MICROSOFT', 'Type' => '21', 'AliasName' => 'st +lt', 'ExportVersion' => 'US' } ; print "\n Platform ="; print Dumper ($VAR1->{Platform}); print "\n abcdname ="; print Dumper ($VAR1->{AbcdName});` [download] Produces: `Platform =$VAR1 = '12000'; abcdname =$VAR1 = 'slhrno1';` [download] All I can do is guess, because I've only seen a snippet of your code, but I think `$self->result` is doing something it shouldn't. Don't forget that Carp and similar "lie" about where an error has occurred, reporting an error in a module as if it were an error in the call.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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