Hell Monks,

Ok so I decided to face my fears and try to learn how to use hashes. It's not so much the data structure that worries me (I get how it flows), but the excess of curly/square brackets as well as parenthesis and how there organized, etc...

So I have this data structure below. It uses an array of data, and I assign that array to a hash using the [1] element as the key (which is the record/file ID). This is the assignment statement I use to achieve that.

     my %records; #--> Hash to be used for the data
my @owner_record; #--> Array holds the data to be placed into the hash

$records{"$owner_record[1]"} = [ "$owner_record[5]", "$owner_record[0]
+", "$owner_record[6]", "$owner_record[9]", (join ":", "$owner_record[
+10] $owner_record[11]"), []; ];

#This hash (%records) prints the following when I use the "Data::Dumpe
+r".
print Dumper \%records;

__OUTPUT__

$VAR1 = {
          '999?AlphaMusic' => [
                                'Bill',
                                '/ud/NEW-PrOdUcTs/NWA',
                                '5151515',
                                '10:51:00',
                                'Sep 16',
                                []
                              ],
          '667!NEWPRODUCT' => [
                                'matthew',
                                '/ud/QC-PROD/NWO',
                                '5555555',
                                '10:25:00',
                                'Sep 16',
                                []
                              ],
          '001!SCHEDULE' => [
                              'richard',
                              '/ud/QC-DATA/CONTROL',
                              '5005444',
                              '10:50:44',
                              'Sep 16',
                              []
                            ]
        };

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So my question is, is it possible to assign the values within the "RECORD_ID" (RECORD_ID = '999?AlphaMusic', '667!NEWPRODUCT', '001!SCHEDULE') to keys of there own?

So for example, with the first element of the hash the structure would have keys as follows: 
RECORD_ID => '999?AlphaMusic' [
                                   USER => 'Bill',
                               FILENAME => '/ud/NEW-PrOdUcTs/NWA',
                                    PID => '5151515',
                                   TIME => '10:51:00',
                                   DATE => 'Sep 16',
                                ELAPSED => '',    #--> Will be used la
+ter
                              ]

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Any help would be great. And remember my experience level is pretty low so you may speak to me as if I were 2 years old, haha just kidding but you know what I mean.

Thanks in Advance,
Matt


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In reply to Perl Hashes, keys under keys (I think)? by mmartin

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