I am trying to setup a hash from an array to sort out
related data. I am very much a newbie to perl. I have
a semicolon delimeted file that looks somewhat like this:

Mac PPC;43
Client for Windows NT 4.0;204
(goes on for about 30 lines)

I have that data placed into an array (@calarray) and would like to get the two fields into a hash. I have been unsuccessful so far. My code is: 
my @calarray;
#puts data to @calarray like I want it to
while (<OUTFILE>) {
    push (@calarray, $_);
}

my $key = "";
my $value = "";
#This is what I'm having trouble with.
%sorting = map { 
    my ($key, $value1) = split ";";
    $key => $value } @calarray;

print "$key, $value";

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I have tried multiple other solutions with no luck. I am a newbie, trying to learn perl on my own so I apologize if this is a dumb question. Any thoughts or info is greatly appreciated... Thanks, Ben

In reply to How to assign a hash from an array? by jamen

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