I don't quite understand what you are doing here, but generally you ought to avoid nested loops. I suspect this for-for-for can be achieved earlier, when you are first building %records.

But as you have it, confirm what is happening with temporary print statements before each of your assignments: 

   if (int($colLens[$x]) < length($rec1)) {
      printf "colLens:%s, rec1:%s\n", $colLens[$x], $rec1;
      $colLens[$x] = length($rec1);
      ...

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Also, stylistically, instead of: 

   for (my $y = 0; $y <= $#header; $y++) {
      $colLens[$y] = length($header[$y]);
   }

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Consider: 

   @colLens = map length, @header;

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I look forward to your final, working program!

Update: I also meant to say, you have int(length(...)) in a few places. length returns an integer, so no need to wrap it with int.

In reply to Re^6: Perl Hashes, keys under keys (I think)? by hbm
in thread Perl Hashes, keys under keys (I think)? by mmartin

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