Hopefully I didn't mess up the title but here is what I am trying to do.
I have a multi-select box in a webpage. When the user hits go the
following is returned in the param: 

session=1678f192860fb3850d27244c76b704b1&action=select&salesman=015&sa
+lesman=020&salesman=030&salesman=035&salesman=045&salesman=050&salesm
+an=065&salesman=075&salesman=090&salesman=095&salesman=100&salesman=1
+05&salesman=110&salesman=120&salesman=900&salesman=911&salesman=998&y
+ear=2003&go=GO

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I am trying to assign a hash with a key of salesman and the values (array reference)
of 020,030,035,045,etc. I thought this would be simple but am having no luck without
creating two lines one for creating the array and one assigning the array reference to
a hash. I would like to do this in one step.
Any help the the wall I am facing?

Thanks much in advance. Doug

In reply to Populating an array reference in a hash with with a regex by diakonos

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