Hello, I am trying to create an array of hashes in my code. The key value pairs are pretty repetetive...hence i thought i can generate them as a string and assign it the array. But this doesnt seem to work!

This is how the array should look like:

$xentry[0] = {BUCK_0 => JUNK, BUCK_1 => JUNK, BUCK_2 => JUNK, BUCK_3 =
+> JUNK} ;
$xentry[1] = {BUCK_0 => JUNK, BUCK_1 => JUNK, BUCK_2 => JUNK, BUCK_3 =
+> JUNK} ;
So on....
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############################################### For this i did the following:

$str="";
for(my $i=0; $j<100;$i+=1)  {  
   for(my $j=0; $j<4;$j+=1)  {  
     $str .=  "BUCK"."_"."$j"." => "."JUNK".",";  
   }
   #Removes the Comma at the end
   $str = substr($str,0,length($str)-1);
   #Appending flower braces.
   $str = "{".$str."}";
   $xentry[$i] = $str; 
   $str="";

}
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Now if i try accessing "$xentry[0]->{BUCK_0}"...It doesnt seem to work. Can somebody let me know the right thing to do?

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