Thanks, your comments for cleaning up my code helped a lot. I switched over that entire three lines , 6-8, to 
push @{$wo_usr_proj{$project}}, $user;

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I had some other stuff in that if statement that needed to be done too. but now when I print out the values from %wo_usr_proj, I only get array memory addresses: 
foreach $proj(sort(keys(%wo_usr_proj)))
{
   print RHANDLE "$proj:\n";
   foreach $element(sort($wo_usr_proj{$proj}))
   {
      print RHANDLE "$element\n";
   }
   print RHANDLE "\n\n";
}

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That gave me the array memory adresses as output into my file I then tried: 
foreach $proj(sort(keys(%wo_usr_proj)))
{
   print RHANDLE "$proj:\n";
   foreach $element(sort($wo_usr_proj{$proj}))
   {
      print RHANDLE \$element;
      print RHANDLE "\n";
   }
   print RHANDLE "\n\n";
}

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thinking that by derefencing $element it would give me the value, but instead it gave me scaler memory adresses. I don't think that the user names are actually getting put into the hash. Is there some initialization that needs to occur to "tell" the hash that its value is an array? I think if I get past this last part I'll be done. Thank you in advance for any help or comments on my code.

In reply to Re: Re: dealing with arrays as hash values by goonarific
in thread dealing with arrays as hash values by goonarific

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