Thanks for the input everyone. I do understand (somewhat) hashes of arrays data structure.

I have looked into moose and others as suggested. My needs are so small at this point (I'm almost done) that I think I'm going to keep hacking away at the base perl system.

Anonymous Monk, thank you so much. This was just what I needed and it works exactly as you demonstrated. I am ignorant of some of the syntax that you used and I was wondering if you could point me to an article that explains the syntax usage? I googled and could not find anyone using the syntax quite this way in my searches.

Specifically...

 = $_ for @_;

I'm guessing this is shorthand for a for loop, but, again, my searches have been fruitless and the man pages have not been helpful.

Thank you again monks for the assistance!

In reply to Re^2: OO Design Question with Hashes of Arrays by ahackney
in thread OO Design Question with Hashes of Arrays by ahackney

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