Thanks for the replies. I will have a look at it but I think I am going to use a different data structure instead. I promise I will use strict and warnings in future. Just for the record the variables were 
$curr_struct_pos = "string";
%$curr_struct_pos;

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and I wanted the new hash to have the same name as the string in the array - not the keys of the hash. Also 
$path = "Global${type}Def:$$curr_struct_pos{$type}[$a].def";

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does give me the correct paths. I have only been using Perl for less than two weeks so forgive my Cish Perl.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Complex Data Structures by immybaby
in thread Complex Data Structures by immybaby

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