Dear Monks-- I've just updated my code -- sorry for wasting everyone's time by giving bad code. I'm still back at the problem about the hash. Is it, finally, a dereferncing problem? What in *heck* am I doing wrong here:

foreach $try (@array2) 
{
$try =~/^(.*),"(.*)",(.*),(.*),"(.*)"/s;
$a = $1;
$b = $3;
$c =$4;
$d = $5; 
$a =~s/"//g;
@bex = ($b, $4, $5);  #this was the line I left out !!
if (!$Tex{$a}){$Tex{$a} = [@bex]};
};

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After this loop, the only thing in the hash %Tex is the last thing added.   Everything else has disappeared.   What in the world am I doing wrong?   As far as I can make out the data is all good.

Edit: g0n - removed stray br tag from code snippet

In reply to Hash problem by Gnat53

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