kyle has shown you how to add key/value pairs to your hash. It might help you to show where it would be applicable to use push and dot equals. The push operator is used to add an element to the right-hand or high end of an array, like this

$ perl -le '
> @arr = qw{one two three};
> print qq{@arr};
> push @arr, q{four};
> print qq{@arr};'
one two three
one two three four
$

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Whereas the .= assignment operator (see perlop) is used to concatenate strings, like this

$ perl -le '
> $str = q{abcde};
> print $str;
> $str .= q{fgh};
> print $str;'
abcde
abcdefgh
$

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I hope you find this useful.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: push/append to hash in a loop by johngg
in thread push/append to hash in a loop by djbryson

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