#!/usr/bin/perl use Data::Dumper; use warnings; while ( ) { #$rec = {}; #$rec = (); %rec = (); for $field ( split ) { ($key, $value) = split /=/, $field; $rec{$key} = $value; } push @AoH, \%rec; } print Dumper(\@AoH); __DATA__ A=1 B=2 C=3 Y=4 Z=5