Dear Monks,

I have a HoH reference like this:

$VAR1 = {
          'FOO' => {
                    'TABLE_NAME' => 'FOO',
                    'TABLE_TYPE' => 'REFERENCE'
                   },
          'BAR' => {
                    'TABLE_NAME' => 'BAR',
                    'TABLE_TYPE' => 'REFERENCE'
                   },
          'BAZ' => {
                    'TABLE_NAME' => 'BAZ',
                    'TABLE_TYPE' => 'CUSTOMER'
                   }
        };

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I am trying to turn this HoH inside out. i.e., I am trying to get: 
$VAR1 = {
          'REFERENCE' => [
                           'FOO',
                           'BAR'
                         ],
          'CUSTOMER' => 'BAZ'
        };

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The easiest option I can think of at this point is to create a HoA from the reference to the HoH. Something like: 

my %HoA;
foreach my $key (keys %$ref_to_HoH){
   my $type = $ref_to_HoH->{$key}->{TABLE_TYPE};
   if (exists $HoA{$type}){
       push @{$HoA{$type}},$key;
   }else {
          $HoA{$type}  = $key;
   }
}

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But this gives me the following error:

Can't use string ("FOO") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at
+ .....

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What am I doing wrong here? Greatly appreciate any help from the revered monks here.

Thanks,

In reply to error creating hash of array by HarshaHegde

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