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Nov 6, 2004, 4:01 AM

Andy

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Nov 6, 2004, 4:01 AM

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Anyone got any ideas what this error message is all about?

Quote:

[Sat Nov 6 03:48:46 2004] hotelclub_xml.cgi: Bad index while coercing array into hash at xml.cgi line 434.

The surrounding area of code, is;

Code:
            # Address... 
            if (defined $xmld->{Address}) { 
              $link_details->{PostalCode} = $xmld->{Address}->{PostalCode}; 
              if ($xmld->{Address}->{StateCode}) { 
                $link_details->{State}      = $_states_hash->{$xmld->{Address}->{StateCode}}; 
              } 
              if (defined $xmld->{Address}->{CountryCode}) { 
                $link_details->{Country}    = $_countries_hash->{$xmld->{Address}->{CountryCode}}; 
              } 
              $link_details->{City}       = $xmld->{Address}->{City}; 
              $link_details->{Line1}      = $xmld->{Address}->{Line1};               
              #print "Directions: " . $xmld->{Directions} . "\n"; next; 
              if (defined $xmld->{Directions}) { 
$link_details->{Directions} = $xmld->{Directions}->{Text}; 
              } 
             }

The part in red is line 434.

TIA for any ideas/suggestions. I've been struggling with this for over a day now Frown

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 6, 2004, 9:30 AM

Chaz

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Nov 6, 2004, 9:30 AM

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Use Data::Dumper and dump $xmld and see what $xmld->{Directions} has in it. It looks like it might be an arrayref instead of a hashref. Post the dump here if you can.

~Charlie

Nov 8, 2004, 4:35 AM

Andy

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Nov 8, 2004, 4:35 AM

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Yeah, you're right.

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($xmld->{Recreation}[0]);

(example)

However, the problem is... that this script needs to accomidate the [0] and also the non-array.

Its gonna be messy.. but I guess I'll need to accomidate for both (not really the best thing to be trying to figure out with a bump on you're head...LOL).

I've seen stuff like;

Code:
if (array $var) { 
  .. work with the array 
} else { 
  ... work without an array 
}

... guess I better start looking into that :(

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 8, 2004, 7:11 AM

Chaz

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Nov 8, 2004, 7:11 AM

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It shouldn't be hard depending on what you need to with the data:

Code:
if (ref($xmld->{'key'}) eq 'ARRAY') { 
  ... 
}

~Charlie

Nov 8, 2004, 7:32 AM

Andy

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Nov 8, 2004, 7:32 AM

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Thats the beauty.... thanks Smile

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk