I think you need to explain a little better what you're trying to do here, and what you EXPECT to happen. For one thing, why are you using $u as your array index? Are you sure you don't want a hash?
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 5:07 PM To: beginners perl Subject: reference trouble I'm trying to convert a hash of hashes to an array of hashes... $hash isa hash reference... my $array; while ( my ($k, $v) = each %$hash ) { my $u = str2time($k); #convert to unix timestamp $$array[$u] = $v; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>