I have a program set up to run through a file containing a list of tests to run, with some of the tests in different folders. I want to set up an array of hashes to do this. Here's how I have it set up: 
my $test_list = "some_tests";
open TESTS, $test_list or die "Can't open $test_list: $!\n";
my @tests;
while (<TESTS>) {
        my %tests;
        next if /^\s*$/;
        my $temp = $_;
        if ($_ =~ /\//) {
                $temp =~ s/\/.*//;
                chomp $temp;
                s/.*\///;
        }
        else {
                $temp = "*";
        }
        chomp;
        $tests{$_} = $temp;
        push @tests, %tests;
}
close TESTS;

my $count = 0;
for (@tests) {
        $count++;
        my %tests = $_;
        my ($test, $category) = each %tests;
        print "Starting $test... ($count/@{[scalar @tests]})\n";
        print "Test: " . $test . "\n";
        print "Category: " . $category . "\n";
}

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I can't quite seem to get this working properly, though. I've tried using each directly on $_, as well, with no success. It seems to work fine up until the point that it tries to print out $category. Perl gives me a warning that it has not been initialised. I've checked Perldoc and searched through SOPW, and found precious little information on arrays of hashes. If anyone could help, I'd be most appreciative. I'm running Perl 5.8.0 on Irix 6.5

In reply to Using an array of hashes by Amidamaru

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