Hi, new to this forum...

I'm am trying to add an element to a hash of arrays, but can't quite figure out the correct syntax...The original data structure was created using XML::Simple()...

my $gxmlConfigObjt = new XML::Simple( 
                          forcearray => 1
                         ,keyattr => {}
                         ,rootname => 'feedback' 
                     );
    
# OPEN : Open the file...
#
my $gxmlConfigDoc = $gxmlConfigObjt->XMLin( $gxmlConfigFile );

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And looks like the following from Data::Dumper()...(p.s. I doctored the output to save on space) ...

.$gxmlConfigDoc = {
.  'item' => [
.    { 'zip-code' => ['03036']
.     ,'city' => ['Chester']
.     ,'name' => ['Adym S. Lincoln']
.     ,'address' => ['123 Lane Road']
.     ,'state' => ['NH']
.    },
.    { 'zip-code' => ['03103']
.     ,'city' => ['Manchester']
.     ,'name' => ['Joseph C. Lincoln']
.     ,'address' => ['1050 Perimeter Road']
.     ,'state' => ['NH']
.    }
.  ]
.};

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I tried/wanted to use push, but that didn't work...Here's some failed attempts...

        $gxmlConfigDoc{item}[++$#{gxmlConfigDoc{item}}] = {
                                      'zip-code' => ['01880'],
                                      'city' => ['Wakefield'],
                                      'name' => ['Whatdb'],
                                      'address' => ['20 Harvard Mill S
+q'],
                                      'state' => ['MA']
                                 };
        #$gxmlConfigDoc{item} = { 'item' => [
        #                            {
        #                              'zip-code' => ['01880'],
        #                              'city' => ['Wakefield'],
        #                              'name' => ['Whatdb'],
        #                              'address' => ['20 Harvard Mill 
+Sq'],
        #                              'state' => ['MA']
        #                            }
        #                       ]
        #                       };
        #push @{ $gxmlConfigDoc{item} }, 
        #     'item' => [
        #          {
        #            'zip-code' => ['01880'],
        #            'city' => ['Wakefield'],
        #            'name' => ['Whatdb'],
        #            'address' => ['20 Harvard Mill Sq'],
        #            'state' => ['MA']
        #          }
        #     ]
        #;

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tia,
adym

In reply to Adding elements to hashes of arrays... by alincoln

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