Ok, this is the direction I chose to go. Any thoughts, ideas, constructive criticism, please be gentle. :)

Thanks guys. 

...
while ( <CDB> ) { 
    chomp;

    die("$base failed probably due to the X25 link being saturated rig
+ht now.\n".
        "Try again in a moment...".
    "Dump from $script: $!\n\n") if ( /ERROR/ );

    next if ( /-/ );

    if ( /AMA/ or /STATUS/ ) { 
    $_  =~ s/\|//;

        if ( /\w/ ) {
        if ( $c == 3 ) {
        push(@ARRAY,{%SITREP});
                $c = 0;
        } else {
        for ( split(/\|/) ) {
                          $_ =~ s/\s//;
           ($param,$value)
                    =  split(/:/);
            $value          =~ s/\s+//g;
            $SITREP{$param} =  $value;
                          $c++;
        }
        }
    }
    }
}

print "There are ".scalar @ARRAY." values in \@ARRAY\n";
#print "$ARRAY[0]{AMAFILE}\n";  <- example

for my $element (  0 .. $#ARRAY ) {
    for my $key ( keys(%{ $ARRAY[$element] }) ) {
    print "$element $role is $ARRAY[$i]{$key}\n";
    }
}

sub debug {
    my $msg = "@_";
    print STDERR "$msg" if DEBUG;
}

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- Jim

In reply to Re: Suggestions on how to make array of hashes with this... by snafu
in thread Suggestions on how to make array of hashes with this... by snafu

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