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Disregard #4. I misread what you wrote. It works fine.
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Re^4: Creating flexible method accessor
by puterboy (Scribe) on Feb 02, 2014 at 03:04 UTC
    Actually, to clarify -- your suggestion of using ${path} works fine when applied to my original script which allows the multi-level hierarchies I need.

    However, it is not obvious (to me) how to make this work in your non-eval script. If I use ${path}, I get all sorts of errors.

    Unfortunately, the exercise you leave to the reader is actually the exercise that was the point of my original question :) (though I quite appreciate your provided script).
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      ${path} is really just a different way of writing $path:

      my $foo = "xyz";
print $foo."bar";   # prints "xyzbar"
print "${foo}bar";  # same

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      As for making it more flexible: let's say you've got your "path" in an array @path, one way to walk your data structure is: $self = $self->{$_} for @path;

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        The problem with 'walking the path' is that there is no guarantee that the path will be: ->{hash1}->{hash2}->{hash3}
        It could be any combination of hashes, hashrefs, arrays, arrayrefs -- which is why I wanted to pass a *string* rather than a list (array) of hash keys.
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