Question

I am coding in Perl and i’m having some minor issue over here.

I have to refer to columns which I don’t know the names of but I do know how many I will get back.

I am looking for a function like bind_columns but which operates with an array.

For example, @Arr[0] contains the data from column 1.

Answer 1

Look at how @Arr is being populated. Looks like you are getting it with something like:

@Arr = $sth->fetchrow(); #=> ['bar','baz']

Perhaps it would be better suited to get:

$row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref(); #=> {'name'=>'bar','title'=>'baz'}
$$row{'name'}; #=> 'bar'