O.K. I'm going out on a limb here. I am VERY fresh to PERL so I still try to get all the concepts right in my head. I took upon myself a task of creating a "simple" PERL script that would generate for me a list of artists, their albums and songs.

So far, I have come up with this script: 

while ($line = <ALBUMS>) {
	
	($myArtist, $myAlbum, $mySong, $myLocation) = split('\|', $line);
	$mySongs{$myLocation} .= $mySong . "+";
}

foreach $myLocation (sort keys %mySongs) {
	++$i;
	@mySongs = split('\+', $mySongs{$myLocation});
	
	foreach $mySong (@mySongs) {
		print "$mySong\n";
	}
}
That onlyl gives me a list of songs and in this case, I would not have to even use hash (let's call it a mental excersise). What I want to do is this: 

Artist:
     Album:
         Songs:
            1.
            2.
     Album2:
         Songs:
            1.
            2.
Artis2:
and so on. In essence I want a grouped report. How can I "attact" this issue (a sample code would be greatly appreciated)?

Thanks.

In reply to Hashes hunt me even when I sleep.... by bman

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