Hi, I am trying to create an array of references but am getting stuck at how/when to push the reference into the array
Below is some sample data and a snip of what I have been trying. What is happening is that the reference $times is getting pushed into the array before all the keys are defined so I am getting $VAR11 = { 'back' => '16:08' }; $VAR12 = { 'home' => '16:09' }; $VAR13 = { 'morning' => '09:24', 'dom' => '09', 'day' => 'Fri' }; $VAR14 = { 'out' => '13:10' }; $VAR15 = { 'back' => '14:17' }; what I'd like is $VAR11 = { 'dom' => '09', 'day' => 'Fri' ' 'morning' => '09:24', 'out' => '13:10', 'back' => '14:17', 'home' => '16:09' }; Can someone point out where I am going wrong please. Thanx. Dp. ======== My effort =============== use strict; use warnings; ...snip my @times; my ($i,$key,$day,$dom,$mon,$time,$hour,$week_starting); my $times; while (defined($i = <FH>)) { next if ($i !~ /^(x|j|k|z)/); chomp($i); # day dom mon time hour ($key,$day,$dom,$mon,$time,$hour) = ($i =~ /^(\w)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)-(\w+)-\d+\s+(\d+:\d+):.*(\d+:\d+|-\d+:-\d+)/); my $colour = 'black'; if ($key =~ /x/i ) { $times = { day => $day, dom => $dom, morning => $time, }; } elsif ($key =~ /j/ ) { $times = { out => $time}; } elsif ($key =~ /k/) { $times = { back => $time}; } elsif ($key =~ /z/) { $times = { home => $time}; } push(@times,$times); } ===== Data Sample =============== x Tue 06-Jun-2006 08:18:22 2006 2:11 [OKAY] $ j Tue 06-Jun-2006 12:51:33 2006 4:33 [OKAY] $ k Tue 06-Jun-2006 13:21:27 2006 0:30 OK+SHL $ z Tue 06-Jun-2006 16:18:52 2006 2:57 [OKAY] 7:20 $ ~ %% x Wed 07-Jun-2006 08:39:05 2006 0:44 [OKAY] $ j Wed 07-Jun-2006 13:11:23 2006 4:32 [OKAY] $ k Wed 07-Jun-2006 13:41:04 2006 0:30 OK+SHL $ z Wed 07-Jun-2006 17:51:18 2006 4:10 [OKAY] 8:42 $ ~ %% x Fri 09-Jun-2006 09:24:05 2006 1:05 [OKAY] $ j Fri 09-Jun-2006 13:10:56 2006 3:46 [OKAY] $ k Fri 09-Jun-2006 14:17:40 2006 1:06 OK+SHL $ ...snip ======================= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>