The confusion may arise from the fact that those things which you have called %HOH are not hashes of hashes but arrays of hashes (strictly arrayrefs of hashes). You should not try to create them with the % sigil since they are refs. So, if you said:

$aref = [
   {
      key => 1,   
      person => "Mike",
      possession => "wallet, keys, car, house, dog, cat, baseball bat"
+,
      age => 25,
   },
   {
      key => 3,   
      person => "Dave",
      possession => "pony, house, car, keys",
      age => 21,
   },
];

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then you could print (or even just refer to) the possession of the second element like so:

print $aref->[1]->{possession};

HTH

In reply to Re: Confused on handling merging values for hash of hashes by hippo
in thread Confused on handling merging values for hash of hashes by hiyall

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