in reply to difficulty with complicated (for me) hashes

Rather than answering your question, I'm going to help you answer your own question. Look at Data::Dumper. Add the following code to the end of your test script:

use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(\%test); # printing a ref to a hash is easier to read tha +n printing the hash itself...
Then look at the output (you may want to redirect to a file or pipe through less, if you have it). Hopefully that helps you understand what's going on.

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Re^2: difficulty with complicated (for me) hashes
by o2bwise (Scribe) on Dec 19, 2008 at 03:12 UTC
    Awesome! Thank you and I am all set.

    o2 (Tony)