Greetings Here is the format of my notify file: e-internalteam: e-randy;e-joel;e-darren e-randy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-joel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-darren: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to build a hash of arrays that looks like this: e-internalteam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is my code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict "refs"; #----------------------------------------------------------------- # define some variables #----------------------------------------------------------------- $notify_file = "/usr/local/bin/unix_notify"; open(NOTIFY, $notify_file) or die "$0: cannot open $notify_file: $!\n"; # load the notify file into a hash ------------------------------- while ( <NOTIFY> ) { chomp; # remove newline char next if /^\s*#/; # skip comments next unless s/^(.*?):\s*//; # look for xxx: yyyy format $notify_email{$1} = [ split /;/ ]; } # insure any notify codes are resolved foreach $key ( keys(%notify_email) ) { print "the notify code is $key\n"; foreach my $element ( @{ $notify_email{$key} } ) { print "the email address is $element\n"; if (exists $notify_email{$element}) { push my @new_array, (@{ $notify_email{$element} }); <=== problem here print "new array is @new_array\n"; } } } close NOTIFY; My problem seems to be that I cannot replace the element in the first hash entry with its value from later hash entries. I thought if I could create a new_array and then reassign the first hash entry...??? Any and all suggestions are welcome. thanks...randy epperson Lands' End Unix sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]