I've got a program that uses an array of hashes to store start and stop times for various jobs. For readability and convenience, I'd like to use a reference in the loop that steps through the array -- something like this: 
foreach my $job (@jobTimes)
{
    $job{'startX'} = int(($job{'start'} - $dayStart) * $scaleConst);
    $job{'endX'} =   int(($job{'end'} - $dayStart) * $scaleConst);
    $job{'start'} =~ s/^0+//;
    $job{'end'} =~ s/^0+//;
}

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Update: tedrek's suggestions worked when initializing the hash, but it's still erroring out when I try to work on it, as listed above. This is where I'd really like to avoid the $jobTimes$i{'foo'} construct.

Thanks,
Alex

In reply to Reference to a single array item in an array of hashes? by ogxela

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