Re: Reading the output of Dumper

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

Ah!  Muchas Gracias for the explanation and the link.

Eric

Mark Dominus wrote:
> > When I invoke Dumper on a variable like this:
> >      my $cgi2 = new CGI;
> >      print "<pre>" ;
> >      print Dumper($cgi2) ;
> >      print "</pre>" ;
> >
> > I get this output:
> >
> > $VAR1 = bless( {
> >    ...
> >                 }, 'CGI' );
> >
> > So far, so good.
> > Now, how do I access the elements of $cgi2 ?
>
> $cgi2 is not a hash, but a reference to a hash.
>
> So one uses:
>
>         print $cgi2->{'display'}[0]    # prints 10
>         print $cgi2->{'charset'}       # prints 'ISO-8859-1'
>         
>         push @{$cgi2->{'display'}}, 17, 23, 119;  # Push onto array
>
> I suggest that you read http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/references.html ,
> "Understand References Today", which has a short symmary of reference
> syntax.
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