Accessing HASH array values !!

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

if i have the variable structure like this :

  $VAR1 = { 
          'href' => 'site/other/setup.htm' 
        }; 
  $VAR2 = '       ';
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how do i access "href" value !!!

my code is like this ....

  my($tag, $attrHash) = @_;
  print Dumper $attrHash."\n";
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when i view the structure of variable $attrHash (i,e by using Dumper) i got the above o/p. Do u know how to get the href value from the above structure.

It's very urgent .....

Thanks n regards,
Danny Appaiah.

edited: Wed Oct 16 16:15:05 2002 by jeffa - s/blah blah//g (code tags)

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Re: Accessing HASH array values !! by broquaint (Abbot) on Oct 16, 2002 at 08:57 UTC
`$attrHash->{href};` [download] See `perlreftut` and `perlref` for more info. HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Accessing HASH array values !! by Anonymous Monk on Oct 16, 2002 at 17:40 UTC
$VAR1 contains a reference to a hash - when you do `{ 'href' => 'site/other/setup.html' }` [download] you create a reference to an anonymous hash, and when you assign that to $VAR1, you make the value of $VAR1 a reference to a hash. So, since $VAR1 is a reference to a hash, to use that reference to refer to the hash, you do `print $VAR1->{'href'};` [download] and that will print 'site/other/setup.html'. HTH.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Accessing HASH array values !! by meetraz (Hermit) on Oct 16, 2002 at 21:40 UTC
Then there is the slightly less readable: `print ${%$VAR1}{'href'};` [download] or the long-winded `my %hash = %$VAR1; print $hash{'href'};` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]