This did not seem to work for me for some reason, I'd either get this error: 
Odd number of elements in anonymous hash

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or I'd end up with this: 

{
   "ARRAY(0x834963c)" : [
      {

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That "ARRAY..." is supposed to be People. Here's the code I used. 
#!/usr/local/perl5/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::XS;
use File::Slurp qw( read_file );
use Data::Dumper;


open(my $fh, '<', '/tmp/test') or die $!; # contains list of file name
+s

my @fields;
while(<$fh>) {
    chomp;
    next if !-e "/tmp/files/$_.json";
    my $decoded = decode_json( read_file("/tmp/files/$_.json") );
    push @fields, $decoded;
}
close $fh;
my $coder = JSON::XS->new->ascii->pretty->allow_nonref;
my $encoded = $coder->encode ({People =>  @fields });
print $encoded;

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If I added a \ before fields (i.e., \@fields) then I'd get People as expected, but I'd also get the same output I was dealing with before (each file being its own array). Also, the slash in front of fields made it so I would no longer get the error about having an odd number of elements.

Though it didn't quite work I really appreciate you taking the time to try and figure it out with me :)

In reply to Re^2: Merging multiple JSON files into one using JSON::XS by walkingthecow
in thread Merging multiple JSON files into one using JSON::XS by walkingthecow

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