Hi, this is closely related to another question I asked here recently, but I'm still struggling to really grok this stuff. :-) I have a list of hashrefs that I can work with very nicely a la: 
foreach my $response ( @ $address  ) {
        print "name: $response->{Addressee}<br>";
        print "street: $response->{Street}<br>";
...etc.

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But sometimes I get just a single hash ref with the same data, and what I'd like to know how to do is force it into a list so that I can use the above loop to process it as a single element list. Sounds easy, right? But I'm getting no where with for example: 
if ( ref $address eq HASH ) {
my $templist = [ $address ];
}

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or 
if ( ref $address eq HASH ) {
push my @templist, $address;
}

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Which seems logical to me, but when I print or ref the new variable I get nothing, when I'm expecting "ARRAYx...". Clearly I'm misunderstanding something here..and I'd be grateful for any feedback!

p.s. this is data generated from XML::Simple, and I could use the ForceArray option there, but I just *kinda really want to know how to do it because it's driven me crazy for an hour now* :-)

In reply to Pushing a hashref into an array by rastoboy

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