Ok works great. Thanks for the help. Josiah
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:38 AM To: 'Josiah Altschuler'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: passing a hash using cgi.pm > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:32 AM > To: 'Josiah Altschuler'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: passing a hash using cgi.pm > > Something like this should work, letting CGI.pm do the work > for you: > > my $query = CGI->new({request => [%clusArrayHash[1]]})->query_string; Rats, that should be: my $query = CGI->new({request => [%{$clusArrayHash[1]}]})->query_string; Which means: $clusArrayHash[1] is a hashref %{$clusArrayHash[1]} is the hash [%{$clusArrayHash[1]}] is a ref to an anonymous array containing the hash "unrolled" to a list The arg to CGI->new() is a hashref to a set of parameter key/value pairs. When you use a listref as a parameter value, the query string will be constructed to properly return the parameter as a list from the param() call, so you can assign it back to a hash. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
