Hi,

I cannot figure out how to create a HoH (or even HoHoH) from a file in
+ following format:

path       start                 end                 delay
----------------------------------------------------------
my_path    /path/3434/some_txt   wodo                -445
your_path  /path/3434/some_txt   wodo_modo           41
my_path2   /path/232/wge45       wodo_modo           240
my_path    /t43/annow23x         /a/b/c/43           NA
...

Each line above corresponds a "record" and belongs to a "path".
So a "path" can include several "records".
Above, "my_path" includes 2 records, ie. 1st and 4th lines.

I just want to store all lines above into a single hash
in the form of:

$db_hash{$path}{<index_for_corresponding_path>}{START}
$db_hash{$path}{<index_for_corresponding_path>}{END}
$db_hash{$path}{<index_for_corresponding_path>}{DELAY}

For ex, 1st line will be:
$db_hash{my_path}{1}{START} = "/path/3434/some_txt"
$db_hash{my_path}{1}{END} = "wodo"
$db_hash{my_path}{1}{DELAY} = "-445"
...

$db_hash{my_path}{2} must be generated from the 4th line and so forth.

The number of "paths" are determined during runtime,
thus I must also determine indices for each "path" on runtime.
The number of members in each "path" can be different.

My question is, how to create index for each unique $path key?
I shall create a separate array of indices, shan't I?

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In reply to Creating members of hash of hashes parallelly by utku

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