in reply to add/replace map result into existing hash

It is not quite clear how you want your final structure to look like. Here is something untested:

my %h = map { $_ => [ `zcat $_ | sed 's/[<> ]//g'` ] } glob("*.gz"); chomp @$_ for values %h;

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Re^2: add/replace map result into existing hash
by fredo2906 (Acolyte) on Feb 19, 2014 at 14:06 UTC
    Thanks, it is actually something like that I was looking for. I updated the post so you can see the kind of structure i am using.