Daniel Gross wrote, on Thursday, April 03, 2003 08:34
: I running into problems again: This time I'd like to fill a hash with
: arrays, however, the following push command generates a syntax error.
: Any idea why
:
: My %dirHash = ();
:
: foreach my $item(@dirArray) {
: $prefix = substr($item, 0,4);
: push @dirHash{$prefix}, $item;
: }
Try this (untested):
push @{$dirHash{$prefix}}, $item;
Remember, it's a hash of array *references*; you have to de-reference
the scalar that's in the hash in order to act on it as an array.
Joe
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