I thought about why you chose a hash and didn't see the benefit. I guess i need to see your requirements first before making that judgement, but again, my point was to show you how to get the most out of Perl - how to break away from C-style coding.

The resulting data structure is an array reference. This may not be what you want, however. Check this out (assuming your data file): 

$_->dump_os for @agents;

# yields:
$VAR1 = [
          'SUN',
          'Solaris 8'
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          'IBM',
          'AIX  4.3.3'
        ];
# etc.

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Again, since i really do not know what your target is, i had to improvise. Now is the time when i wish i could be at your computer ... but alas ... if you want to continue this disussion, let's work via /msg and scratchpad's - no need to waste database space. ;)

UPDATE:
After some discussion via /msg's, i feel that storing the os's in a hash is not necessary at all. If you store them in an array reference as i have done, you can test for a particular OS by using grep. Here is an example: 

foreach (@agents) {
   $_->dump_os if grep /AIX/, @{$_->{os}};
}

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Of course, you could also grep a hash, but that seems a bit like using a square on a round hole to me. ;) Good luck!

jeffa

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