7stud, GrandFather, thank you for the quick reply. I have warning and defined variables, I was just simplifying things. YOu are right, there are no first element in a hash (they are stored in an internal order and format, thanks for pointing that out). 

sub initrooms
{
        my (@aa, %things, $b, @ar, $t, $de, $ex, $th, @a);
        open (RF, "rooms.txt")
                or die "could not open datafile: $!";
        undef $/;
        @ar = split (/0/, <RF>);
        $/ = "\n";
        foreach (@ar)
        {
                ($t, $de, $ex, $th) =  split /:/, $_;  
                if ($th eq //)
                {       
                        next;
                }
                %things = split /-/, $th;
                print  %things;  (all elements present)
                push @a, { TITLE => $t, TEXT => $de, EXITS => $ex, THI
+NGS => {%things}  };
        }
        return \@a;
}

sub lookat 
{
        my @i;
        my ($id, $i, $item);
        my ($tg, $cr, $aoa) = @_;
        if (exists ($aoa->[$cr]->{THINGS}->{$tg}))
        {
                print color("bold blue"), "\n", $aoa->[$cr]->{THINGS}-
+>{$tg}, color("reset");
                return;
        }                      
        print "\nHmm .. where?";
}

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In the exist line I can find all things except the first one pushed onto the array. So $aoa->[0]->{THINGS}->{bed} does not exist but $aoa->[0]->{THINGS}->{chair} does exist. Very strange! And this repeats itself in all 3 $aoa[]

In reply to Re^2: Lose first element of hash in hash .. by theantler
in thread Lose first element of hash in hash .. by theantler

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