Not to new to Perl (yet I have alot to learn still), but I've never had a real open need for hashes before either, until now. Here's my question. Basically I have multiple files that I'm reading out of, where the files are the names of my hashes, so given the code (for one hash): 
open(STATS, "/path/to/file");
    @file = <STATS>;
close STATS;

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Each file will contain a one liner only, in the format of:

key|value|key1|value| and so on

And now the hash: 
%file=("key"  =>value,
     "key1" =>value);

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How would I be able to read this out of @file, so that I could write the hash as: 
%file=("$key" =>value,
       "$key1"=>value);

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I was thinking of some snippits, but they would be way to long and complicated (and not needed), as I am sure there is a much easier way out there (basically I was going to run a few loops, but pointless I think). Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to Messing with hashes by FireBird34

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