in reply to Dynamic Dereferencing

you are missing a dollar, line 290

otherwise, $VAR1 is what you call a dereference, right?

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Re^2: Dynamic Dereferencing
by Flip76 (Novice) on Dec 07, 2018 at 12:43 UTC
    Oh sorry, line 290 is wrong as I used the output from my script and not from the snipplet here - actually this line is meant:

    $deref = $item->{$element};
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      here then:

      # But this works
deref = $item->{meta}->{created};

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        No, it's this line 
        # This works for all elements except of meta}->{created
$deref = $item->{$element};

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