So what's the problem you are having? It's not well-stated here. Do you need help on how to use a Hash of Hashes instead? 

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Data::Dumper;

my %hoh;

while (my $line = <DATA>) {
    chomp($line);
    my ($key, $height, $color, $weight) = split(' ', $line);
    @{ $hoh{$key} }{qw/height color weight/} = ($height, $color, $weig
+ht);
}

say Dumper \%hoh;


__DATA__
ef56 2.6 red 4
ef42 2.8 green 3

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Output: 
$VAR1 = {
          'ef56' => {
                      'color' => 'red',
                      'weight' => '4',
                      'height' => '2.6'
                    },
          'ef42' => {
                      'height' => '2.8',
                      'weight' => '3',
                      'color' => 'green'
                    }
        };

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Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Hash of Arrays by 1nickt
in thread Hash of Arrays by pmilne

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