RE: [coldsync-hackers] newbie question(s)

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, John Joseph Roets wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm writing back, as I'm basically set up with a regular cradle in ttyS0, and it
> runs fine.
> I however, need to create a conduit with the Palm::Raw module, and am having
> difficulties.
> It seems that my conduit is writing a file, yet it contains a mess of:
> this is a test
> HASH(0x81528bc)this is a test
> HASH(0x81811e4)this is a test
> HASH(0x8181ec4)this is a test
> HASH(0x8181f18)this is a test
> HASH(0x8181f6c)this is a test
> and on and on...
>
> What is going wrong here?

> foreach $record (@{$PDB->{"records"}})
> {
>         print OUTFILE "this is a test\n";
>         print OUTFILE $record;
> }

	As so often happens in these sorts of cases, your script is doing
what you told it to do, not what you want it to do.
	If you RTFM Palm::PDB(3), you'll see that $record is a hash.
Presumably you meant
	print OUTFILE $record->{data};
or something similar.

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