Hi Monks!
I've written a script using Net::Telnet::Cisco to log into an access point and capture information about associated clients. I simply output this to a log file and then parse the file. What I'd like to do is take only the values MAC address, Signal Strength, and Signal-to-Noise Ratio from the output for each client. What I will do is load the output file and parse each line with regex to pull out the relevant data. However, not knowing how many clients will be associated at any one time, how can I create an associative array for each client that will hold the relevant data? For example, can I create arrays named '%client_i' where the value of i simply increments from 0 to the number of clients returned? A new client will be identified each time a MAC address is found while parsing the output log. Secondly, can I use each of these '%client_i' arrays to store key/value pairs such as 
%client_0 = ("MAC",$mac,"RSSI",$rssi,"SNR",$snr);

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Thanks in advance.

In reply to Create Arrays On-the-Fly by spickles

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