Hello Monks, I am trying to read in a CSV file into array of hashes. Where the array indexes would represent lines in the file, while hash keys would be the respective names of the columns. So, here's my subroutine: 
sub read_dat
{
    my @data = ();
    
    open (IN, "<Weekly_Data.csv") or die "ERROR: Could not open weekly
+ data file!";
     foreach my $line (<IN>){
        my @line = split (",", $line);
        my $i = 0;
        my %tmp;
        
        foreach my $col (@columns){
            $tmp{$col} = $line[$i];
            $i++}
        push (@data, %tmp);
    
     }
    close (IN);
    return @data;
}

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But when I try to print something like print $data[0]{COMPONENT} Perl complains that "string "Component " cannot be used as a HASH reference". I think the problem is in how I populate the array. Any ideas? Thank you.

In reply to Array of Hashes population by barakuda

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