You want to do 2 things: 1) append some data to a text file and 2) load that file into a hash.

Assuming that is correct you could try something like this to get you started: 


my $user = 'Resin';
my $score = 1000000;

# append to db

open (PICKEMDB, '>>', "pickemdb.txt") 
  or die "Can't write results.";

my $record = join '|', $user, $score;
print PICKEMDB "$record\n";

close PICKEMDB;

# later, read into hash

open (PICKEMDB, '<', "pickemdb.txt") 
  or die "Can't read results.";

my %pickemdb;
while (my $record = <PICKEMDB>){
  chomp $record;
  my ($user, $result) = split /\|/, $record;
  $pickemdb{$user} = $result;
}

# traverse over the hash to see

for my $user (keys %pickemdb){
 print "$user -> $pickemdb{$user}\n";
}

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updated: changed second error message

In reply to Re^3: Writing a hash of two variables to a file by wfsp
in thread Writing a hash of two variables to a file by Resin

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