I apologize. I do use strict and warnings. That and any typos I have are because I do not have perl on this system and have to look at the other system where I test it to type it here.

I would agree that the syntax I have is not what I want. As I mentioned in my reply to stevieb, a normal AoH syntax would have been better.

If I understand what you have, you get the strings into $excerpts[$i], then replace those strings with hashes in the 

$excerpts[$i] = { fpart=>$1, bpart=>$3 };

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step. This unfortunately gets rid of the original string in each array element. I could get around this by doing 
$excerpts[$i] = { fpart=>$1, bpart=>$3, content=>$value };

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if I first get the content into $value before overwriting it.

Thanks

In reply to Re^4: Adding hashes to already existing array by ExReg
in thread Adding hashes to already existing array by ExReg

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