From: Steve Bertrand <st...@ibctech.ca>
> Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> > From: Steve Bertrand <st...@ibctech.ca>
> >> my $user = EagleUser->new();
> >>
> >> $user->build_inf_user('steveb');
> >>
> >> print "$user->{'login_name'}\n"; # outputs 'steveb' as expected
> >>
> >> while ( my ($key, $value) = each($user) ) {
> >
> > while ( my ($key, $value) = each(%$user) ) {
> >
> >> print "$key => $value\n";
> >> }
> >>
> >> ---- end code ----
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Steve
> >
> > It doesn't matter whether it's an object. It's a hash reference so
> > you can treat it as such. And since each() expects a hash, not a hash
> > reference, you have to dereference. That is put a % in front of the
> > $user.
>
> Thanks Jenda.
>
> I'm going to have to really focus on learning about the dereferencing
> factor, and where/when some of the [${}->] etc need to be, because I
> don't have a very good grasp on that.
Try the perlreftut man page.
(http://perldoc.perl.org/perlreftut.html)
Jenda
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