array of hashes

Nital has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am very new using Perl. I am trying to create an array of hashes when reading information from files. The problem that I have is that I have several files. I create an array with the names of the files to open, then using "foreach" I open each file and add the information to the hash. my problem is that each file is overwriting previous file information. I am just so confused and I have tried several options, the way to solve this issue may be very easy but somehow I just don't see it, (lack of experience or just... not focus enough). Would someone help me? Thanks!

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Re: array of hashes by Kc12349 (Monk) on Sep 20, 2011 at 13:56 UTC
Please show us some sample code and be sure to wrap it in <c> tags.	[reply]
Re: array of hashes by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2011 at 13:58 UTC
For an example of the same problem see parse xml and store data in array of hashesh To learn how to avoid this problem see: Tutorials: Getting Deeper Into Perl: Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics Tutorials: Getting Deeper Into Perl: Coping with Scoping For syntax see Tutorials: References quick reference, also covered in detail in Chapter 7 of http://learn.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/	[reply]
Re: array of hashes by aartist (Pilgrim) on Sep 20, 2011 at 15:40 UTC
Problem could lie anywhere, but from your description, when you enter the data in the hash, check the code. Most likely you are overwriting information. Code same will help us to resolve it. You might also use debugger to examine the variables at various stages. Also use module Data::Dumper to examine them.	[reply]