Re: using / accessing nested hash/array references

[state-o-dis-array]

in reply to using / accessing nested hash/array references

These:

    @results = &get_list();
    $hostresults[0] = &get_list();

are not equivalent. You have encountered a context issue, the first line above is list context, the second is scalar, in other words, $hostresults[0] is not an array as I think you are expecting. I think what you would want to do is change the second line to something like:

$hostresults[$i] = \@results;

Then $hostresults[0] is a reference to your first data set.

You might want to look at perldsc and perlref

[tspfwj]

I changed the line to

 $hostresults[0] = \@{&get_list()};

and I am still receiving the scalar error. I have experimented with initializing like

my @hostresults = (\@result1,\@result2);
#or
my @hostresults = (@result1,@result2);

but I still received errors. My attempts would have been with the same context though. The right side sub returns the array of hash references which is why I left in the line above in my original example. My hope was to show what was happening outside of my context or syntax errors. Thank you

[state-o-dis-array]

Sorry, I was kind of hoping that having changed how you are assigning to $hostresults[0] that you might take that as a clue to look at how you are accessing it. Anonyrnous Monk provides a valuable suggestion in referring you to Data::Dumper. Also, have you taken time to check out the links I provided? I think that they will be helpful to you.