Hello again, wise ones.
For the exercise and for the utility, I want to try building simple web pages from data in a flat file. Later, when I understand things better, I will use CGI.pm where appropriate. Different scripts would use differing parts of the data - not all of the data would be needed for a Name/Phone Number list, for example.

The data file would look something like this, pipe separated values (would that be PSV?) with a max of maybe 50 records instead of three. (In real life there would be many more fields, too.) 

title|first|last|room|phone|email
Mrs|Linda|Caralo|201|148|she@borg.org
Miss|Jean|Androno|317|167|j@alo.com
Mr|Steve|Paterman|101|100|steve@net.net

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My question concerns using a reasonable data structure within the perl scripts. As a novice, the best I have come up with is an array of hashes as follows: 
my %caralo_l ( 
“title” => “Mrs”,
“first” => “Linda”,
“last” => “Caralo”,
“room” => “201”,
“phone” => “148”,
“email” => “she@borg.org”,
);

my %androno_j ( 
“title” => “Miss”,
“first” => “Jean”,
“last” => “Andronlo”,
“room” => “317”,
“phone” => “167”,
“email” => “j@alo.com”,
);

my %paterman_s ( 
“title” => “Mr”,
“first” => “Steve”,
“last” => “Paterman”,
“room” => “101”,
“phone” => “100”,
“email” => “stv@net.net”,
);

my @alldata (%caralo_l, %androno_j, %paterman_s);

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It seems to me kind of a waste to repeat the KEY information in each hash, but I haven’t thought up a better way.
Question: Is this really an array of hashes?
Question: Is this a reasonable approach?

-theo-
(so many nodes and so little time ... )
Note: All opinions are untested, unless otherwise stated

In reply to Is this a reasonable data structure? by Theo

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