our @arrayAoH = "";
    my $i = 0; # i holds the line number of the input (@discovered) ar
+ray.
    my $j = 0; # j holds the number of the table row.
   my $key;
   my $value;
# $# returns the subscript of the last element in the array.
    until ($i eq $#discovered){
        if ($discovered[$i] =~ m/Item Number:/){
# parse this line containing labels and values until a blank line is f
+ound
            until ($discovered[$i] eq ""){
                ($key, $value) = split /:\s*/, $discovered[$i];
##            $arrayAoH[$j] = { $key => $value };
                $arrayAoH[$j]{$key} = $value;
                $i++;
            }
# If the selected item shouldn't be processed, remove this array row.
            if (($arrayAoH[$j]{"Model Number"} !~ m/^Foo/)){
                splice (@arrayAoH, $j, 1);
            }
            else {
            $j++;
            }
        }
        else {
        $i++;}
    }
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20050623 Edit by ysth: code tags

here's the whole code segment
I doubt that. This code won't parse.

When using strict, you have to declare $arrayAoH first. Besides,

$arrayAoH$j{$key} = $value;
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should read:

$arrayAoH[$j]{$key} = $value;
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and

if (($arrayAoH$j{"Model Number"} !~ m/^Foo/)){
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should be

if (($arrayAoH[$j]{"Model Number"} !~ m/^Foo/)){
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Please post actual code...

Paul

Sorry. I added the definition of the array. The brackets around the array subscripts are there in the code; this web site's parser eats them. Thanks tl

The eventual solution found by sapnac got buried below so I'll re-mention it here with an explanation. The issue is in the "initialization" code

 our @arrayAoH = "";
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The problem is that this doesn't just create an array. It creates an array with a single element that contains an empty string. It's basically equivalent to

our @arrayAoH;
$arrayAoH[0] = "";
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The solution is to either leave out the assignment or to assign it an empty list (which is different from an empty string):

our @arrayAoH = ();
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More formally, a simple scalar value in list context is treated as a list of length one containing that value.