Hi,

I'd like to use Data::Dumper to dump something which I type in <STDIN>. I tried to enter test first one and used something like for ( split " ", $input ) { $dump .= "->{$_}"; } but that didn't seem to work. I also tried entering $test->{first}->{one} and dumping ${$input} but that didn't seem to work either.

Any ideas on how to go about doing this?

Thanks

use strict;
use warnings;

our $test = {
    first => {
        one => { number => 1 },
        two => { number => 2 },
        three => { number => 3 }
    },  
    second => {
        one => { number => 1 }, 
        two => { number => 2 }, 
        three => { number => 3 }
    },  
    third => {
        one => { number => 1 }, 
        two => { number => 2 }, 
        three => { number => 3 }
    }   
};  

my $input = <STDIN>;
$input =~ s/\n$//;

no strict 'refs';
my $dump = ${$input};
use strict 'refs';

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper( $dump ), "\n";

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