First off I apoligize if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a post that met my needs. I'm pretty new to perl, so I think this is a fairly simple question. I have a loop that goes over a file, and parses out the username, and the project that user works on from the file. I then want to put the project name as a key into a hash, and then have an array of users that is associated to that key. I am currently trying to do that by: 
 

1.  foreach (@ufile_contents)
2.  {
3.    ($buser2,$email,$project) = split(/\|/,$_);
4.    if($uo_hash{lc($buser2)} =~ /WO/)
5.     { 
6.       @usr_list = $wo_usr_proj{$project};
7.       push(@usr_list,$buser2);
8.       $wo_usr_proj{$project} = @usr_list; 
9.     }
10.  }

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the if statement just makes sure that the user belongs to a certain office before it gets put into the hash. the hash is wo_usr_proj, and I want to use @usr_list for the hash value. when I check what @usr_list is set to after line 6 I see that its just an empty array, so when I push something on to it, I'm getting a two item array. this is true through out the whole execution of the code, not just on the first step. Also, shouldn't it be a single item array after the push since the initial array was empty. I'm getting an empty slot and then the username when I print out the array. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? thanks in advance.

In reply to dealing with arrays as hash values by goonarific

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