in reply to Re: Scalar in structure field name (ddumper)
in thread Scalar in structure field name

Jeez! I'm a silly bugger! Sorry for the waste of time here as the problem was completely foolish ...
here's what I was doing:

my $table_type = $params->{local}->{$station}->{realtime}->{table_type +};

and here's what I should be doing:

my $table_type = $params->{local}->{realtime}->{$station}->{table_type};

I'll go sit in the corner now with my cap of shame on ...

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Re^3: Scalar in structure field name (ddumper)
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 30, 2013 at 17:18 UTC

    To save you some finger strain in the future: all of those ->s beyond the first one are not required.

    my $table_type = $params->{local}{realtime}{$station}{table_type}; Will do the same thing.