Dear monks,

I appear to have no knack for using hashes. I have a nested hash structure call $ligHash that points to this:

$VAR1 = {
          '34k' => {
                     'R1' => {
                                ...
                             },
                     'R2' => {
                                ...
                             }
                         ...
                    },
          '34n' => {
                     'R1' => {
                               ...
                             },
           etc...

        };
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Now I pass each sub hash (i.e. '34k') to a function that dumps it:

foreach my $lig (%{$ligHash})
{
    DoDump($lig);
}
sub DoDump
{
    my $ligand = shift;
    open TEMP, ">>", "ligandDump.txt";
    print TEMP Dumper($ligand);
    close TEMP;
}
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I end up getting instead this:

$VAR1 = '34k';
$VAR1 = {
          'R1' => {
                    ...
                  }
           etc..
        }
$VAR1 = '34n';
$VAR1 = {
          'R1' => {
                    ...
                  }
            etc..
        }
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Does anyone know why this is happening?

And as a side question, when I dump the entire structure to a .txt file it ends up being ~6.5mb. Is this excessively large to hold in memory or anything like that?

Thanks ahead of time!

-Thomas

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