Hi Monks,

I'm trying to read a datafile and append data onto a specific line as indexed/identified by the first word.

The data file is in this format

name,success1,description1,success2,description2,...

eg: 
dog,yes,string1,yes,string2
cat,no,string3
mouse,no,string4,no,string5
horse
ferret

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My attempt at doing this is below. Apart from it not working, it seems to hang on the 'split' line 
#!/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my $name="mouse";
open (FH, "datafile.txt")||die "cannot open file";
while ( <FH> ) { 
   next unless s/^(.*?):\s*//;
   $HoA{$1} = [ split /,/ ];
 }
print Dumper(%HoA);
my $success="yes";
my $description="new string";
push @{ $HoA{$name} }, $success, $description;
for $venue ( keys %HoA ) {
   print FH "$venue @{ $HoA{$venue} }\n";
}

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Can any one help and show me the correct way, or even a better way, of doing this??

In reply to Trying to read a file into a Hash of Arrays by Anonymous Monk

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