The hash looks something like: $global{'title'}='Report for today' $global{'data 1'}{title}='My data 1 title' $global{'data 1'}{data}= (ref to hash) $global{'data 1'}{footer}='My footer' $global{'data 2'}{title}='My data 2 title' $global{'data 2'}{subtitle}='Data 2 subtitle' $global{'data 2'}{data}= (ref to hash) $global{'data 2'}{'data percentages'}= (ref to hash) $global{'data 2'}{'data raw'}= (ref to hash) $global{'data 2'}{footer}='Footer for data 2' and so on..