For the report, you need to read up on Perl formats. They'll help you produce exactly what you need. (If you have questions after you read this, I'll be happy to provide specific answers).

As far as how to store the information, I think you'd be better served by a Hash Of Hashes of Hashes, e.g. $idmatrix{$subname1}{$qName1}{$qName2}, or $idmatrix{Whoopie}{Cog}{Cogswell}.

That way, when it comes time to display your table you can just have a series of foreach my $name ( sorted keys %idmatrix } etc.

(The code snippets have not been tested, and random "s"s may have been added ot dropped; sorry.)

In reply to Re: HASH HELP PLEASE by apl
in thread HASH HELP PLEASE by Anonymous Monk

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