Initializing a hash can be done with an array, each pair of values in the array form key and value of the hash. Often '=>' is used as an alias to ',' to make this obvious:

my %hash= (0, 'ticket', 1 => 'dateadded');

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{$names{$_}} on the other hand is not a really useful expression in perl, %{$names{$_}} refers to a hash whose reference is stored as value in another hash (i.e %names). A multidimensional hash or HashOfHashes in perlspeak

If what you wanted was a Hash of Hashes, the syntax looks like this:

$names{$_}{key}= 'value';
#or to initialize with an array:
%{$names{$_}} = ('key1' => 'value1','key2' => 'value2');

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if you want further information about HoH (Hash of Hashes), you might want to read perldsc and perllol

In reply to Re^3: Spliting a delimited string into variables by jethro
in thread Spliting a delimited string into variables by pissflaps

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