What I am having problems with is that I want "price" to be modified to be an array of prices. So some of the zip files would have one price, while others may have two or more. 

my @file_attachments = (
  {file => 'test1.zip',  price  => '10.00',  desc  => 'the 1st test'},
  {file => 'test2.zip',  price  => '12.00',  desc  => 'the 2nd test'},
  {file => 'test3.zip',  price  => '13.00',  desc  => 'the 3rd test'},
  {file => 'test4.zip',  price  => '14.00',  desc  => 'the 4th test'}
  );

     # Get the number of items (hashes) in the array.
my $file_no = scalar (@file_attachments);
     # $file_no is now: 4 in this instance as there is 4 hashes in the
+ array.


     # Looping through the hash and printing out all the hash "file" e
+lements.
for (my $i=0; $i < $file_no; $i++)
{
print '$file_attachments[$i]{'file'}  is:'. $file_attachments[$i]{'fil
+e'}."\n";
}

     # Looping through the hash and printing out all the hash "price" 
+elements.
for (my $i=0; $i < $file_no; $i++)
{
print '$file_attachments[$i]{'price'} is:'. $file_attachments[$i]{'pri
+ce'}."\n";
}

     # Looping through the hash and printing out all the hash "desc" e
+lements.
for (my $i=0; $i < $file_no; $i++)
{
print '$file_attachments[$i]{'desc'} is:'. $file_attachments[$i]{'desc
+'}."\n";
}

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Sample code came from here: http://htmlfixit.com/cgi-tutes/tutorial_Perl_Primer_013_Advanced_data_constructs_An_array_of_hashes.php

In reply to Inserting an array in an array of hashes by gibsonca

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