I must be doing something wrong. I have some key value pairs, originally part of a form submission (a simple database search), that are stored in a hash called %in.

I'd like to empty the %in hash, storing its key-values in %in_current, so that I can use %in for something else for a while (namely, an internal search of the database, based on the terms of the user's search).

Then I'd like to move the %in_current values back into %in, and print the record the user requested.

So I send some new key-values into a subroutine as %inhash. Then:


Here, the search function is called, its results printed, and then:


And we go on our merry way, printing the results of the original search. Only problem is, the %in key-values seem to pile up, contaminating the second set of results, those originally called by the user. It seems like %in is holding on to both sets of key-value pairs (the user set and the internal set).

Is there a better way to temporarily clear the %in values and then restore them? What am I missing here?

 

Cheers,

Dat

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If you are undeffing %in then you are totally undefining %in as if it never existed and so there must be some part of your code that is doing something it shouldn't be.

I don't see anything obvious in the code. It may be best to work line by line through the code to check all the values of hashes and variables to see what's doing what.

Hi,

Is this what you want?

#my %ori = map{$_ => $in{$_}} keys %in;

#undef %in;
# %in = map{$_ => $newhash{$_}} keys %newhas;
# do something
# undef %in
# retore %in
#%in = map{$_ => $ori{$_}} keys %ori;
#

Hope that helps

Cheers,

Dat

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That is exactly the same as:

my %ori = %in;