"What I wanted was similar to what you provided...but instead of each key being the file name, I want to be able to have a series of hashes in an array...such that it would be populated like:"

You've forgotten to post the part that tells us what "it would be populated like"!

If it was supposed to be this (which appears after the next paragraph):

{name => 'pm_multi_line_match.pl', size => 1025},
  'pm_multi_mod_distro_test' => {
    'My-Example' => {
      {name => 'Build.PL', size => 651},
...etc
[download]

then I'm left convinced that you don't really have a clear picture of the data structure you want.

• What you've posted there has no container: what structure holds that data?
• It starts with a hashref: was there supposed to be a key before it?
• The next line has a key ('pm_multi_mod_distro_test') whose value is a hashref.
• That hashref has a key ('My-Example') whose value is a hashref.
• That hashref has no keys. You show another hashref where the key should be.
• Basically, this is not a Perl data structure!

I suggest the first thing you do is follow the link I already gave you ("perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook") and learn about Perl data structures.

When you've done that, tell us exactly, and in full (between <code>...</code> tags), what Perl data structure you'd like to generate from this directory structure (assuming all files have a size of 99):

dir_A
+-file_B
+-dir_C
  +-file_D
  +-dir_E
    +-file_F
  +-file_G
+-file_H
[download]

When we know what your goal is, we can help you to achieve it.

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