William Martell wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to work with the code I have to extract fields from a text file report, > and write the values into excel. > > I am having trouble. > > When I get to push @order_detail, %item > I understand that this is pushing an associative array onto a list. (array > of hashes)
That is the problem, a list cannot contain a hash. The keys and values of the hash simply become flattened into list elements, and all the hashing magic is lost. perldoc perlref will explain how references can help resolve this problem.. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
