Fellow monks, I have searched the internet high and low in every way that I can imagine but am unable to find a solution to my problem, so I come seeking the wisdom of those more well versed in the ways of hashes than myself: I run the following command and get the results as shown below: 
/usr/local/bin/mpscli -S 10.11.10.2 -N username -P password show subsc
+riber accountid="0000000 1111111"

NAME: Last, First
ACCOUNTID: 0000000 1111111
DESCRIPTION: 
ORGANIZATION: 
DEPARTMENT: 
OFFICE: 
EMAILADDRESSES: email@host.net
BUSINESS1_PHONENUMBERS: 
BUSINESS2_PHONENUMBERS: 
HOME1_PHONENUMBERS: 555-1212
HOME2_PHONENUMBERS: 
CELLNUMBERS: 
PAGERNUMBERS: 
ADDRESS1: 150 Main Street
ADDRESS2: 
CITYSTATE: City, State
COUNTRYZIP: 99999
NOTE: Test modem @ home
LOOKUPKEY: E136470EB3C911DCA53A00E081647FA8
CREATIONTIME: Wed Dec 26 07:47:36 2007
MODIFIEDTIME: Tue Nov 18 11:08:55 2008
CABLEMODEM: 
    MACADDRESS: 000B06227472

    MACADDRESS: 0015A2789F9B


MTA: 
DEVICE: 
HOST:

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I am putting all of this data into a hash by splitting the data and making everything before the ":" the Key and then putting in the corresponding data as the value. So far so good :) The problem lies when there are multiple MACADDRESS entries on an account. Typically there is only 1, but there could be as many as n entries there. I would like to put that data into the hash as well so I would get: 
MACADDRESS=>6000B0227472
MACADDRESS2=>0015A2789F9B
...
MACADDRESSn=><insert mac address here>

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I am completely unsure how to do this. Any help is much appreciated. There is probably a MUCH better way to do this than I am doing it, but I understand what I am doing here, and that is important to me, I can evolve it later as my understanding gets better :) Here is the current code that makes the hash. 
Notes:
1)  @custinfo is where the data is returned from the command shown abo
+ve
2) Not all data returned has a : in it, and we don't want that data so
+ we just work on the data that is seperated by a ':'
3) In the case of the MACADDRESS there are spaces in front of it, so w
+e delete them.

foreach (@custinfo) {
        if($_=~/:/){
                my ($key, $data) = split (/:/,$_);
                $key=~s/\s+//g;
                $record{$key} = $data;
                }
        }

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Like I said, there is a better way to do this I am sure, but at my current level of understanding, this works :) Not that it matters, but I also delete all hash keys that contain nothing...there is probably a better way to do that so that they are not included in the first place as well...LOL :)

Thanks in Advance

In reply to Question about a hash.... by raisputin

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