hbm, thanks for the reply.
Nice I like that one you suggested: @colLens = map length, @header; cool stuff!


I had did what you suggested about the print statements inside each looping area, but I had removed them when I copy/pasted it over to the post, just to make it a little easier to read. And what I noticed was that the first 2 loops where giving the correct lengths but everything after that was not.
Basically, the end result I want is that I will print a table of the records, which will have as many rows as there are records and 8 columns wide.

And in order to get a nice, readable table printout I'd use this: 
printf "%-10", $elementToPrint;

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I'm sure you know that this will make a "cell" in the table 10 spaces wide and left justified.
And what I did in another program I wrote was replace "10" with $colLens[$x], where $x is the largest length of the string in each element for every record, including the @header elements as well.


So for an example, if I have the following data: (I removed a couple of the column elements so it fits on the page correctly)
The end result should be that @colLens = (9, 14, 7, 8, 3, 7, 8) 
#Max Column length in parenthesis.

   (9)           (14)         (7)      (8)    (3)    (7)      (8)
  OWNER   | 999?SheetMusic |ralph   |50054441 |156 |pts/220 |9:00:44
WAITING-0 | 999?SheetMusic |randall |33096504 |35  |none    |9:10:44
WAITING-1 | 999?SheetMusic |kelly   |55555556 |999 |pts/900 |9:00:00
  OWNER   | 001!SCHEDULE   |joe     |51515154 |000 |tty/100 |10:00:00
WAITING-0 | 001!SCHEDULE   |mvick   |12345677 |886 |none    |9:20:00
WAITING-1 | 001!SCHEDULE   |russel  |76543215 |456 |tty/101 |10:00:00

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Sorry if I confused you more, trying my best to explain it as well as I can haha.
Let me know if you think of anything.


Thanks Again,
Matt


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In reply to Re^7: Perl Hashes, keys under keys (I think)? by mmartin
in thread Perl Hashes, keys under keys (I think)? by mmartin

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