in reply to MySQL to Hash Revised.

I'm trying to do what the first program does but by populating the hash from the database

I that case maybe you should be using the Name field as the key to your hash like this

$sql = "select * from scanner.vulnerabilities"; $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql); $sth->execute or die "SQL Error: $DBI::errstr\n"; my %ref; while (my $row = $sth ->fetchrow_hashref() ){ $ref{ $row ->{'Name'} }{'port'} = [ $row ->{'port'} ]; }

Also, this code only needs to run once so you can move it up outside the while loop.

poj