use Data::Dumper; use CGI qw(:standard); my %unsubscribe; foreach my $address (@dbs) { open (DAT,'<',"$memberinfo/$address") or die "can't open $address: $!\n"; my @dbase_array = ; print pre("dbase_array = ", Dumper \@dbase_array); print "address = $address", br(); close(DAT); $unsubscribe{$address} = [@dbase_array]; print pre("hash = ", Dumper \%unsubscribe); }