Re: Add Hash Key Based on Matching Another Key

[jethro]

That's what hashes are for. First create a hash with the mac address as key and the hash pointer as value (the advantage is you need to do this only once):

my %macs;
foreach @aps {
  $macs{$_->{'ap_MAC'}}=$_;
}

then your loop is reduced to this:

 $macs{"00:00:00:00:00:00"}{'serial'} = "FTX12345678";

If you often need to know the array index too, you might store the index number as value into the hash instead of the pointer

[spickles]

Thanks everyone! Just what I needed.