Hi, I have a newbie Perl question about dynamic generated hashes -

Each line of my small CSV file consists of a number of Folder Titles, followed by the Field titles for that line/record:

INPUT: FirstFolderTitle,SecondFolderTitle,ThirdFolderTitle,Field1,Field2,Field3,Field4\n

I want to split the folder titles into hashes of hashes and put the rest of the fields into an array in the 'deepest' hash:

$BIGLIST{$firsttitle[$i][0]}{$secondtitlename[$i][1]}{$thirdtitlename[$i][2]}{$couldbe1or2moretitles[$i][3]} => [ @RESTOFFIELDS ];

Easy enough when I know how many folder fields to split the line into, but how can I do this dynamically when I don't know what the total number of title fields (i.e. the number of nested anonymous hashes) will be?

I'm not familiar enough with anonymous hashe structure yet to get the data in and out on the fly like this; can anyone help?

Thanks,
rjc

In reply to Creating Hash of hash of hash dynamically by rjc

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