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vroom has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (data structures)

How do I make an array of hashes?

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Re: How do I make an array of hashes?⭐
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 31, 2000 at 00:42 UTC 
    my @array = (
  {
    'name' => 'Chuck',
    'job'  => 'roustabout',
  },
  {
    'name' => 'CowboyNeal',
    'job'  => 'code monkey',
  },
);

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    You can also use normal array operations (such as push) to modify an array: 
    push @array, { 'name' => 'vroom', 'job' => 'stacking blocks' };
print $array[0]->{name};

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    See perlman:perldsc for more information.
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Re: How do I make an array of hashes?
by fx (Pilgrim) on Dec 19, 2003 at 23:26 UTC

    If the hash has already been created, you can store references to the hash in arrays:

    push(@array, \%some_hash);

    and then when you pop them off:

    $hash_ref = pop(@array);

    you'll get a scalar back which can be dereferenced to get at the values of the hash:

    $value = $hash_ref->{'key'};

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