D'oh! Late waking up this morning. That's because hashes can only have unique keys... you can create a hash of arrays to fix this issue:

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my %h; my @a; while (<DATA>){ chomp; my @a = split /@@@/; push @{ $h{$a[0]} }, $a[1]; } print Dumper \%h __DATA__ CustomerA@@@DomainA CustomerA@@@DomainB CustomerA@@@DomainC CustomerA@@@DomainD CustomerA@@@DomainE CustomerB@@@DomainA CustomerB@@@DomainB CustomerB@@@DomainC CustomerB@@@DomainD CustomerB@@@DomainE __END__ $VAR1 = { 'CustomerB' => [ 'DomainA', 'DomainB', 'DomainC', 'DomainD', 'DomainE' ], 'CustomerA' => [ 'DomainA', 'DomainB', 'DomainC', 'DomainD', 'DomainE' ] };

Then access everything like this:

for my $key (keys %h){ for my $elem (@{ %h{$key} }){ print "$key: $elem\n"; } }

In reply to Re^3: Filling a Hash by stevieb
in thread Filling a Hash by iRemix94

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