(...)Seriousely considering making my customer change his mind and revert to plain old C++
Looks like Perl is not able to handle trivial data structure like an array of records (or hashes).
Gregoire,
1) Your code *shows* you're a C/C++ programmer; it will take some time to be proficient in Perl, if you want to.
2) The comment at line 29 is impolite and unnecessary.
3) It's easy to add a new item to an array of hashes (you must fix it in line 60):
push @array, \%hash;
4) Use Data::Dumper to check your data structure:
use Data::Dumper; print Dumper @table;
5) It's easier to iterate over an array of hashes using foreach:
foreach my $hashref (@table) {
# do something with $hashref or %{$hashref}
}[]s
Nelson
