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in reply to Re: Parsing text file into a hash with multiple values per key
in thread Parsing text file into a hash with multiple values per key

Ah... thanks, that did it...don't know why I couldn't see that.

$guest unless $guest takes care of the duplicates I was seeing.

I'd tried (scalar @{ $hash{$_} }) but must have munged some of the syntax. Thanks again, problem solved.