I'm working on a script that retrieves data from a database into a hashref (using fetchall_hashref) and returns the hashref to the body of the script before being used in a later subroutine. What seems to be happening, though, is that the entire hashref is never being returned. I get the primary hashref with all of the record identifiers, but none of the fields exist. I *think* I've got the syntax right, but I've been screwing with this for a full day now so I'm hoping more experienced eyes can see what I'm missing. My (relevant) code looks like this:
# # In the main body of the script # my $eleref = get_elements(); # The element ID key exists, but with no fields as soon as it's returned print " AFTER RETURN: Iterating over keys in eleref->{'26276'}\n\n"; while ( my ($k, $v) = each %{$eleref->{'374039'} } ) { print "key: $k, value: $v.\n"; } # # Subroutine to return all elements in a hashref # sub get_elements { print "Retrieving elements for type checking...\n"; my $get_ele_sql = qq { SELECT elem_id, elem_typ_id, root_elem_typ_id, resoln_elem_typ_id FROM t_elem_lkp ORDER BY root_elem_typ_id }; my $get_ele_sth = $nz->prepare ( $get_ele_sql ) or dienice ( "$get_ele_sql", $nz->err, $nz->errstr ); $get_ele_sth->execute(); my $eleref = $get_ele_sth->fetchall_hashref ( 'elem_id' ); # Values are printed for this element ID at this point while ( my ($k, $v) = each %{$eleref->{'26276'} } ) { print " key: $k, value: $v.\n"; } $get_ele_sth->finish(); return $eleref; } Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you. Rob Wilkerson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/