Hi Monks, I've updated the code snippet so hopefully it's more clear. I'm stuck trying to dereference an array of hashes. Each key has 2 values (normally a hash consists of one key and one value...so this is confusing me a little bit.

For example, I have several managers (the key) that have 2 values for each ..."total events" and "total updates"

 
     
my @mans = qw / Joe Mike Rich /;
my @tot_updates = qw /12 7 17 /;
my @tot_events = qw /45 14 10 /;

   
for (@mans) {

push( @{$managers{$_}}, shift@tot_updates);
       push( @{$managers{$_}}, shift@tot_events);
}


for $t ( $#managers ) {
        for $b ( keys %{$managers[$t]}) {
        print "$t and $b is $managers[$t]{$b}\n";
        }
}
[download]

Pushing the values onto the array works fine i believe. It's dereferencing that's not working. I'm totally confused how to dereference this...I'd like the output to be: manager: value1(total updates) value2(total events) Joe 12 45 Mike 7 14 Rich 17 10 Please help if you can..I would really appreciate it greatly