I have a log file I am parsing that will eventually become a report. I split each line of the log file into its individual fields, and ran select fields into a hash. 
%report = ();
while (my $line = <$log_file>) {
   my @fields = (split / /, $line);
   $report{$_}++ foreach @fields[2,4,5,9,7,1];
}

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That works fine... and then I realized I need each field categorized for the reporting part later. I think I need an array of hashes; but I can't figure out how to name each hash after the index number of the @fields array as I'm creating it. The existing hash above could be changed to the main array @report. Then each of the selected index numbers would become the name of a different hash within @report.

The following horrible code creates hashes for each line of input instead of a hash for each selected field. 

my @report;
while (my $line = <$log_file>) {
   my @fields = (split / /, $line);
   foreach (@fields[2,4,5,9,7,1]) {
      my %hash;
         foreach (@fields[2,4,5,9,7,1]) {
            $hash{$_}++;
         }
      push @report, \%hash;
   }
}

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sample log lines: 
483 OS dx-32 1 charles list4 aardvark.com ty-off lx-on C 01
483 DS dx-14 1 james list3 23.456.12.7 ty-on lx-on B 01
769 XO dx-32 5 sully nolist widgets.com ty-on lx-on V 07

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so for example, when the array of hashes is created, one of the hashes in the array would be 
@report = (
   {  #### 2 or fields2, something like that
      dx-32 => 2,
      dx-14 => 1,
   },
   { #### fields3, and so on

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any thoughts?

In reply to array of hashes, categorized by array index by tevus_oriley

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