Hi Monks, some time ago I posted my problem about having a wrapper script for starting services in linux. I now have the following hashes. 
our %services = (
    1 => {
        name => "service1",
        host => { host1 => 1 },
    },

    2 => {
        name => "service2",
        host => { host0 => 2, host5 => 2 },
    },
);

print "----------------Menu-----------------------------------------\n
+";
print "Please enter the number of the service and press return\n";
print "-------------------------------------------------------------\n
+";
for $row (sort keys %services){
        my $service=$services{$row};
        print "$row\t $service->{ name }\n";
}
print "Please enter number -->";

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I don't want to really be adding new hashes to the program in the future to add new services. I think it would be a lot neater to read it from a file. Is it possible to put the hash information in a flat text file, so I can read the contents from the text file and create new hashes with service information? I read something about a tie option in Perl for connecting to text file databases, but I don't know how I would read it in and put into hashes. Any help, or pointer in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks.

In reply to Reading from a flat text file database and storing contents in a hash by wishartz

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