Hello Monks, I want to do something that I am not sure I am able to do, so any help would be appreciated. A brief summary of what I think I want to do: I have a file I want to load into a hash table, this is just a plain csv file, with either a BLANK or an X in its fields. Why? I have a script that needs to determine if the hash field is something I want to turn off. I could use a multi dimenisonal array, but it would be more clear to other developers if I could use a Hash to represent the name of what I want to turn off. I tried to create and initialize the hash table like this:

%HashTempRec = 
(
 'Name' => '',
 'AlarmConsistencyMgr' => '',
 'AlarmForwarder'      => '',
 'AlarmForwarderServer' => '',
 'alert_publisher' => '',
 'AnalogGatewayMain' => '',
 'AssetTracking' => '',
 'CallerPosition' => '',
);
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There are more fields, but for readability I've removed them. So now when I read the csv file, ace.dll,,,X,X,,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,,,,,,,X,X,X,,,,X,,,,,,,,X,,,,,X,,, -- there are more records, but I want to keep this post reasonable. I want to populate the Hash Table with the elements from this file. So I tried to do

for each $item (@Dependency)
{
   @HashTempRec = $item;
}
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This obvisuouly fails and I don't know where to go from here. Is there a way to load a hash table is this fashion?

--Hash table definiion here--
$Test1      = "D:\\Profiles\\p57571\\Desktop\\Book3.csv";
if( -e $Test1)
{
    print "Opening $Test1\n";
    open(PACKAGEINPUT, "<$Test1"); 
    my(@lines) = <PACKAGEINPUT>;
    
    foreach $temp(@lines)
    {            
        chomp $temp;
        
        if( $temp =~ m/\S/ig)
        {                                        
            #find the extension
            my $fileExt = substr( $temp, -3 ) ||'';
            
            #this searches for exe's then any coresponding dlls       
+         
            if( $fileExt eq 'exe' )
            {
                foreach my $element( split /,/, $temp)
                {
                    if( $element =~ m/\.exe/)
                    {
                        #print "element = $element\n";
                    }
                }
            }
            else
            {

                        print "temp = $temp\n";
                        %HastTempRec = $temp;
                
            }
        }
    }                                        
    
}
else
{
    print "$Test1 does not exist\n";
}
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thanks in advance. I hope my question and reasons why are clear enough.

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