I am writing a script to read many files with structured data, the ultimate goal is to create a CSV file where each line has the server name and the value of the fields.

I cant seem to build and array of hashes to hold the data, the application only inserts the first record

typical file data: 
define host {
        host_name                       whplnsweb-dr
        use                             xiwizard_windowsserver_host
        alias                           whplnsweb-dr
        display_name                    whplnsweb-dr
        address                         172.28.17.115
        hostgroups                      AntiVirus End Point Protection
+,windows-servers
        contacts                        helpdesk,admin
        register                        1
        }

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my program: 
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;


my @host = ();
my $record = {};
my $key;
my $value;
my $line;
my $rec_num = 0;

my $filename = "";
my $dirname = "S:/Projects/Nagios/usr-local-nagios/etc/hosts";

opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "cant opendir $dirname: $!";
while (defined ($filename = readdir(DIR))){
    next if $filename =~ /host_data/;
    next if $filename =~ /^[\.]+/;
    print "filename: $filename \n";
    open(FH, "<", $filename);

    while ($line = <FH>){
        chomp $line;
        next if $line =~ /^$/;
        next if $line =~ /[#{}]/;
        $line =~ /^\s*(\S+)\s*(\S+)/;

        $record->{$1} = $2;

    }

    close(FH);
    push @host, $record;
    $rec_num =+ 1;

}
closedir(DIR);


print Dumper(@host);

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In reply to array of hashes use by salatconed

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