Ok I am still breeding on my array of hashes and the references...
I decided that the array of hashes is too small for me.. I need to store more values...
In fact I need now an array of hashes of values AND a array of hashes

so it should look like:
array[1]{"Company"} = "CompanyA"     #Name of company A
array[1]{"Street"} = "StreetA"             #Street of company A
array[1]{"Contact"}array[1]{"Contact_Tel"} = "4654"   #Tel of Contact 
+1 from Comp A
array[1]{"Contact"}array[1]{"Contact_Name"}="Mr B"    #Name of Contact
+ 1 from Comp A
array[1]{"Contact"}array[2]{"Contact_Tel"}= "6544"    #Tel of Contact 
+2 from Comp A

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i already created my second hash but i dont know how to push it into the hash
it says:
Type of arg 1 to push must be array (not hash element) at H:\legal\xlsparse.pl line 78, near "%contacthash;"
So I need to treat the hash as an array.. or something like that!?...... ARGH CONFUSING
it got to do something with references

I am already able to store it as a reference to the hash but then the idea of a array would be lost...

Anyway, is it possible to create that array? Or should I use a more intelligent way to store my data?

Cheers Schuk

In reply to Array of hashes of values AND Arrays of Hashes by Schuk

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