Question

I have a hash with some key/value pairs

my %hash = ('key1','value1', 'key2', 'value2');

I pass it in the Stash to use it in a html template:

$c->stash( theHash => %hash);

And then, in the Template, to display the values I think I should use something like

[% theHash.key1 %] #It should display "value1"
[% theHash.key2 %] #It should display "value2"

But it does not work.

It works if I pass values one by one:

$c->stash( valueOfHash1 => $hash{'key1'});
$c->stash( valueOfHash2 => $hash{'key2'});

And retrieving it as

[% valueOfHash1 %] #It displays "value1"
[% valueOfHash2 %] #It displays "value2"

But the hash will have a lot of values. It does one seems to be a good idea.

What I am missing? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

If you drop a hash into list context, it gets unrolled into a list.

You want to store a hash reference.

$c->stash( theHash => \%hash);