Hi folks I am passing a list containing a variable number of items to a function. This list represents a path in a tree-like data structure made up of hashes to hashes to hashes etc. The items represent the hash keys. The problem I'm having is accessing this tree node when the list contains a unpredictable number of items. for example if we always had 3 items we could simply do a 
 

$HOH{item1}{item2}{item3}="value";

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I need to find a way to do something like 
 
@list=(item1 item2 item3 .. itemx)
$HOH{item1}{item2}{item3}..{itemx}="value"

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I've written a recursive function that walks the data structure using the passed list but this seems like over kill I know exactly where I want to go and should be able to jump straight there. Any ideas ?

In reply to Hash to Hash to Hash .... by wertert

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