Ah, so basically, you're trying to assign the DEVICE to a symbolically referenced scalar, whose name is coming from $entry[3]. I would recommend against doing this, and for using a hash instead, to store these DEVICEs. Like this:
$devices{$sn} = new DEVICE;
$devices{$sn}->datetime{$datetime};
# etc.

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If you rearranged your data slightly, you could get rid of one hash.
# I've snipped out what I consider to be the important bits...
# Warning: This is untested code!

# First, store the sn count inside the DEVICE, since we have one DEVIC
+E per $sn
struct ( DEVICE => { datetime => '$', devicetype => '$', zip => '$', v
+ersion => '$', sn_count => '$'});

# Get the $sn and other fields here

# If this is the first time we see $sn, populate the DEVICE
if (!exists $SNs{$sn}) {
    $SNs{$sn} = new DEVICE;
    $SNs{$sn}->datetime('$datetime');
# etc. 
}

# update the sn_count for this $sn.
$SNs{$sn}->sn_count($SNs{$sn}->sn_count + 1);

foreach my $key (keys %SNs) {
    print "$key\n";
}

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What is your motivation for storing things in symbolically referenced scalars instead of hash elements?

Alan

In reply to RE: Re: Anon Struct Instance by ferrency
in thread Anon Struct Instance by THuG

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