hi, i have following code:

my @a;

for (my $i=0;$i<10;$i++) {
my $filenum_str = sprintf "%03d", $i;
my $filename = "/var/tmp/${filenum_str}";
my %b;
create_hash_for_filename($filename,\%b);
push @a, {%b};

}

 for my $key (keys  %{$a[0]}) {
       for my $j (1..$#a) {
          if (exists $a[$j]{$key})
          {
            #adding column 1 and 2 in 1st hash if found in other hashe
+s and deleting from them
             $a[0]{$key}[0] +=$a[$j]{$key}[0];
             $a[0]{$key}[1] +=$a[$j]{$key}[1];

           # delete 1st and 2 nd column from other hashes
             delete $a[$j]{$key};
         }
      }
  }
  print "now printing merged firat hash:
 for my $key (keys  %{$a[0]}) {
      print  "$key : $a[0]{$key}[0]: $a[0]{$key}[0] \n";
}

sub create_hash_for_filename {
 my ($file , $hash) = @_;
      open (FILE, "< $file") or
      do {
        return(1,"$file couldnt be opened");
      };

      while(<FILE>)
      {
          my @match = split (' ', $_);
          $hash->{$match[0]} = [$match[1], $match[2]];
      }
      close(FILE);
}
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I am tryngi to create an array of 10 hashes and then trying to merge all 9 hashes in 1st hash. But second for loop doing it does not produce any output. Can somebody tell me what is wrong in the way I am access these hashes from the array. Jimmy update-> Now printed and added code for the subroutine for creating hash

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