Hello,

I have a really basic question that I have been milling over for a couple of hours now and I thought I had it, but I am not getting the results I wanted. I simply need to create a hash and then add data to it through multiple "while" type loops.

Here is what I have: 
while ($WOW =~ m!<table id=.*?table.*?<a href=.*?><b>(.*?)</b></a></sp
+an>.*?\(from (.*?)\)!sim) {
                     $Uip = $1;
                     $Uuser = $2;
                my %hash = (key => $Uip);
                $hash{key} .= $Uuser;
                print "$hash{key} \n";

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... and that will print the $hash{key} pairs to the screen, but I don't think it is putting them into a hash called %hash.

I think the code above is messed up. Is there a better way to do this? How do I run through and print out the hash when I am done to validate that it is being popluated?

I appreciate everyone's help.

Many thanks,
ghettofinger

In reply to Inserting data into a hash by ghettofinger

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