Reading in array of hashes

[theSeeker03]

I have a tab delimited file that I want to read in, such that each line is a hash and the entire file is an array of the hashes. To test it, I am printing a CityName. What's wrong with this picture?:

my @arrayOfContacts;
my $numOfContacts =0;
while (<INCONT>){
chomp($_);
$arrayOfContacts$numOfContacts]{&quot;CONT_ID&quot;,
&quot;ADDR_1&quot;,&quot;ADDR_2&quot;,&quot;CITY_NAME&quot;}= split(/\t/,$_);
$numOfContacts++;
}

print &quot;$numOfContacts\n&quot;;
print &quot;$arrayOfContacts[$numOfContacts]{CITY_NAME}\n&quot;;

 

[theSeeker03]

Sorry, I meant

$arrayOfContacts[$numOfContacts]{&quot;CONT_ID&quot;,

with the bracket [

 

[rosenk]

In order to assign the values to your hash slice, you need to treat it as a list:
[tt]@{$arrayOfContacts[$numOfContacts]}{&quot;CONT_ID&quot;, &quot;ADDR_1&quot;, &quot;ADDR_2&quot;, &quot;CITY_NAME&quot;} = split(/\t/);[/tt]

 

[theSeeker03]

that works. Thanks!