Ok, so I figured out this part, but now my problem is that I need to have the hash set up so that I have a many keys (file names) and each key has multiple values (parsed from the files) these bascially need to be set up like this: 
%pers_dcr_files = (

    'Name' => [
                'RightNavLaunchDate'        => "",
                'RightNavExpirationDate'    => "",
                'LinkURL'                    => "",
                'SmallGraphic'                => "",
                'ShowHome'                    => "",
                'ShowPersonal'                => "",
              ]                
        
);

# Hash for Business Page

%bus_dcr_files = (

    'Name' => [
                'RightNavLaunchDate'        => "",
                'RightNavExpirationDate'    => "",
                'LinkURL'                    => "",
                'SmallGraphic'                => "",
                'ShowHome'                    => "",
                'ShowBusiness'                => "",
              ]                
        
);            

# Hash for Home Page

%home_dcr_files = (

    'Name' => [
                'RightNavLaunchDate'        => "",
                'RightNavExpirationDate'    => "",
                'LinkURL'                    => "",
                'SmallGraphic'                => "",
                'ShowHome'                    => "",
                'ShowBusiness'                => "",
                'ShowPersonal'                => "",
              ]

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I had these initial settings in my code, that is what was causing the array/hash error, but how do I set up my hashes in this manner to proceed with my program and not break the logic from the previous part?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Hash Problems by wstarrs
in thread Hash Problems by wstarrs

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