You've got a couple problems here. 1st you can't do what you're looking to do they way you're looking to do it.

When you assign like  $hash{'myhash'}->{ODIR} = %direc; .. there's 2 problems. One, it should be..  $hash->{'myhash'}{ODIR} = ... and second, it's not doing what you think it's doing.

Without giving it away, put this in your script. 

 
print scalar %direc;

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That is exactly how the assignment is getting evaluated. It's not assigning the hash itself, it's assigning the results of the hash being evaluated in scalar context.

What I think you want to do is assign a refrence to the hash as in 

$hash->{'myhash'}{ODIR} = \%direc;

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Now the key ODIR will contain a refrence to the hash %direc. And you'd print it like so.. 
foreach (sort keys %{$hash->{myhash}{ODIR}}){
    print "$_ => $hash->{myhash}{ODIR}{$_}\n";
}

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Hope this helps..
Rich

In reply to Re: Referencing to a hash inside a hash of hashes. by rchiav
in thread Referencing to a hash inside a hash of hashes. by JPaul

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