Re: How does DBI return an arrayref with key/value pairs?

[PerlSufi]

Hello, I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but I have used a little of the DBI module to produce excel sheets.
I did something like this:

my $row=0; my $col=0;
$xWS->write($row, $col++, $_) for @{$sth->{NAME}};

# Read the query results and write them into the spreadsheet
while (my $ar=$sth->fetchrow_arrayref) {
      ++$row; $col=0;
               $xWS2->write($row, $col++, $_) for @$ar;
                        }

Actually, I won't take much credit for that. I found something similar on the perlmonks site itself. I hope this helps..

[walkingthecow]

I can understand the misunderstanding here since my wording may not be the best on this one. I am asking how DBI does it, not how to do with DBI (i.e., how does vs. how to). The code in my question works, but I don't fully understand how it works. I don't get how the arrayref that gets returned has values that can be accessed with a key.