capturing a hash from an array of hashes 1

[sloppyhack]

I am trying to capture a hash from an array of hashes and assign it to one hash. It's not working, but I know it's possible. Here's an example.

my @dups; #my array containing hashes

I want to pash one hash from this array into a hash variable.

$lgth1 = length $dups[$row]->{'ITDESC'}; #assign length value..this works

if ($lgth1 >= $lgth2) {
%best = $dups[$row]; #this may be the problem..trying to assign one row of the array (a hash) to the hash variable
}

print "$best{'ITDESC'}\n"; #this doesn't print anything


Cheers,

Sloppyhack

 

[rosenk]

%best = $dups[$row];

I think this needs to be:

%best = %{$dups[$row]};

The [tt]@dups[/tt] array contains hash references, not hashes.

 

[sloppyhack]

You rock. That did it. I always get confused with references vs. actual structures. Thanks a bunch!!!

Cheers,

Sloppyhack