I'm trying to use (for the first time) a hash of anonymous hashes to hold a set of data records from a delimited flat ascii file. I will at some point need to add, edit, and delete records from this set but they must be put back into this flat file as other applications use this file.
Currently we use vi to manage these data and all kinds of problems are introduced using vi.

The code I'm working with(doesn't work) is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

our %rets;

open(RL, "</home/myftplog")
    || open (RL, "<h:\\myftplog")
    || die "$!\n";
while (<RL>) {
    chomp;
    next if /^$/;
    my ($fn,
        $rl,
        $mle,
        $rce,
        $mlfn,
        $mlln,
        $mlac,
        $mlpn,
        $ml2e,
        $ml2fn,
        $ml2ln,
        $ml2pn,
        $retname,
        $ml2ac,
        $rc2e,
        $fc,
        $retid,
        $scrname,
        $exec,
        $freq,
        $fnum) = split /:/;
        if ($fnum eq ""){
            my $fnum = "_001";
        }
    %rets = (
             ${retid}.${fnum} => {
                 FNAME             => $fn,
                 RECLEN            => $rl,
                 LIAISON_EMAIL     => $mle,
                 LIAISON_FNAME     => $mlfn,
                 LIAISON_LNAME     => $mlln,
                 LIAISON_AREACODE  => $mlac,
                 LIAISON_PHONE     => $mlpn,
                 LIAISON2_EMAIL    => $ml2e,
                 LIAISON2_FNAME    => $ml2fn,
                 LIAISON2_LNAME    => $ml2ln,
                 LIAISON2_PHONE    => $ml2pn,
                 RETNAME           => $retname,
                 RETAILER_EMAIL    => $rce,
                 LIAISON2_AREACODE => $ml2ac,
                 RETAILER2_EMAIL   => $rc2e,
                 FTPCHECK          => $fc,
                 RETID             => $retid,
                 SCRIPT_NAME       => $scrname,
                 EXECFLAG          => $exec,
                 FREQUENCY         => $freq,
                 FILE_NUMBER       => $fnum
             }
         );
}
close RL;
 
foreach my $id (keys %rets) {
    print "$id\n";
}

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when I execute this I get no errors. However I only have one record in %rets. I thought I would have had a separate reference to each %rets=>$retid.$fnum
I'm very confused. I do tink I'm close but I still need help!

In reply to Hash of anonymous hashes --- Oh my by sweetblood

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