Okay. I think I see what you're trying to do now. Based on what I see in the Cookbook on p 140, it looks like you want a hash whose values are array refs. This will effectively get you the "more than one value per hash key" that you're looking for. It is kind of hard to tell what to help you with regarding that particular example without a little smaller target for us to aim for.
The example is fairly simple, except for the fact that instead of assigning values to an array, then setting the array reference to a hash key, it pushes values directly into the hash.
BTW: here is the code I'm referring to:
%ttys = ();

open(WHO,"who|") or die "can't open who: $!";
while (<WHO>) {
  ($user, $tty) = split;
  push( @{$ttys{$user}}, $tty);
}

foreach $user (sort keys %ttys) {
 print "$user: @{$ttys{$user}}\n";
}

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The one line that looks like it might cause understanding problems is push( @{$ttys{$user}}, $tty); Basically, push expects a list for its forst argument, but $ttys{$user} will return a list refernce, not a list. Using @{...} forces push to evaluate what's in those braces as a list, which it knows how to work with.

Guildenstern
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In reply to (Guildenstern) REx6: Populating a Hash: Can someone help me to understand? by Guildenstern
in thread Populating a Hash: Can someone help me to understand? by Limo

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