Re^2: Frontier::Client mystery result string hash

This doesn't create a copy, just an alias:

local %hash;
*hash = $result->[0];
...
print "Print city: $hash{'city'}\n";
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I still can't quite figure out why Frontier::Client put this result in such a pointlessly nested data structure...

Could it possibly return more than one result? Or maybe it's just extending a generic module that returns the data in that fashion.

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Re^3: Frontier::Client mystery result string hash by brycen (Monk) on Feb 16, 2005 at 19:50 UTC
Tricky! Even the camel book harly touches on the * operator, relegating it to 'supported in C' in the index... I settled on the decidedly untricky: `$geocode = $result->[0]; print "Match: lat=$geocode->{'lat'} long=$geocode->{'long'}\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Frontier::Client mystery result string hash by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 17, 2005 at 15:40 UTC
It's not a operator. It's a variable-type sigil like $, @, % and &. It refers to an entry in the symbol table. While manipulating the symbol table (as I did) is an advanced topic, it is well documented.	[reply]