[Omaha.pm] Pulling in a hash via "exec"...FAIL

[Dan Linder]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:

> Have you tried this instead?
>
sub retrieve_fields {
>        my ( $file )=@_;
>        my *$fields*;
>        open(FILE, $file)
>        {
>                local $/;
>                eval <FILE>;
>        }
>        return *$fields*;
> }
>

I thought of that but I couldn't find an comments regarding the differences
caused by changing the hash (%fields) to a straight variable ($fields).  I
know Perl doesn't do strict casting of variables, but this still looked odd
to me.

I'll give it a shot and see - the main program  the retrieve_fields()
subroutine resides in is used by a number of other collection routines and I
don't want to break things too badly when adding my new section.  (Sadly we
don't have a test harness setup _yet_ so I don't have a baseline to work
from...)

Dan

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