in reply to beginnner perl hash question
You can initialize your hash with:
%hash = ();
And access it later on (after it is populated) in a loop like so:
foreach $key (keys %hash) { print $hash{$key} . "\n"; }
You can also look around the Monastery. This might be some good reading for you: QandASection: hashes
Jamie
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