I have a hash which has arrays of arrays as the value for each key:
$tabset = 'clientInfo';
%tabsets = (
clientInfo => [('#', 'View Contact Information', 'Contact Information'),
('#', 'View the Job Log', 'Job Log'),
('#', 'View the Client Assets', 'Client Assets'),
('#', 'View Press Releases', 'Press Releases')
],
); # data simplified and other keys removed...
I want to be able to first get the array of arrays that matches a key, keeping it as an array of arrays., then do a for each loop, keeping access to the array of that array item (OK, bad description, I know...):
(here's where things go awry)
if (exists($tabsets{$tabset})) {
my @$tabs = @{$tabsets{$tabset}}; #this isn't right....foreach my @tab (@tabs) { #of course this isn't correct syntax, but should illustrate what I intend to do
print "<a href=\"$tab[0]\" title=\"$tab[1]">$tab[2]</a>\n";
}
} else {
&explode();
}
What really happens will be a bit more complex, but that is the basic logical structure is what I want. But I rapidly get confused in what's a reference, and how to refer to something without flattening my 2-dimensional array into a flat array (so that the above array with 4 items which are each an array of 3 items ends up being a single array of 12 items).
So, the questions are, how do I handle the references so I can maintain the 2-dimensional-ness of my hash values, but still access them by key, and then how do I use each item, which is an array, in a foreach loop?
TIA
Chad A Gard http://www.percussionadvocates.com/chad
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