thanks Dave, well I think I'm populating the hash now, but cannot prove it as I have a problem with the print loop 
 my $HashKey = $_[4];
 $HashKey += 1;

# initialise the hash
 my %LogHash = ();

    while (<LOGFILE>){
        if (/\b$Autosys/) {
# populate the hash
 %LogHash = ($HashKey => $SentRec = substr($_, 0, 20));
        }
    }
# debugging stub
# print out the contents of the hash
 foreach $k (keys(%LogHash))
 {
   print LOGFILE $k, ",", $LogHash{$k}, "\n";
 }

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the error is 
Global symbol "k" requires explicit package name at ./pmc_tester.pl li
+ne 183.
Execution of ./pmc_tester.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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So I'm not there yet...

In reply to Re^2: Perl Hash by TechNoFear
in thread Perl Hash by TechNoFear

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