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Re^2: Referencing/returning array of hashes from sub

by PoGGiE (Initiate)
on Jun 08, 2011 at 18:23 UTC ( [id://908760]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Referencing/returning array of hashes from sub
in thread Referencing/returning array of hashes from sub

Thanks. I think I understand; makes sense if all the returns are sequential in memory and @date has no idea how big it 'should' be so gobbles everything up. What data structure would you recommend?

Thanks,

Carl

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Re^3: Referencing/returning array of hashes from sub
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 08, 2011 at 18:36 UTC

    Dereference your references as you need to work with them. There's no syntactic need to expand them into non-references. Instead of:

    my @expanded = @$reference; for my $element (@expanded) { ... }

    ... you can just as well write:

    for my $element (@$reference) { ... }
      Thanks, I've managed to fix my problem now (at last!). Thanks for the help.

      Scrapping the big
      my (@date, ...) = (@$date_ref)

      and replacing with
      my @date = @$date_ref; my @F_SCORE = @$F_SCORE_ref; my @F_SCORE_BOX = @$F_SCORE_BOX_ref; my @F_ROA = @$F_ROA_ref; my @F_CFO= @$F_CFO_ref; my @F_dROA = @$F_dROA; my @F_ACCRUAL = @$F_ACCRUAL_ref; my @F_dLEVER = @$F_dLEVER_ref; my @F_dLIQUID = @$F_dLIQUID_ref; my @F_EQOFFER = @$F_EQOFFER_ref; my @F_dTURN = @$F_dTURN_ref; my @F_dMARGIN = @$F_dMARGIN_ref;

      did the trick (although I'm not sure why).
        although I'm not sure why

        Array assignments are greedy, just as other people have said. How is Perl to know that in:

        my (@date, @F_SCORE, ...) = (@$date_ref, @$F_SCORE_ref, ...);

        ... @date should only slurp up the elements from the flattening of @$date_ref into a list? By the time the assignment occurs, Perl has forgotten how many elements $date_ref contained.

        By the way, as I wrote before, there's no obvious and particular need to perform this copying operation. It's probably just busy work. If you're having trouble figuring out how to work with references in place, ask away and we'll help you figure out how to avoid it.

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