I realize this title is weird :(, but I do not know how to express it better. Let me try. I am writing some if/elsif/else loops with the very similar content, so that got me thinking that there has to be a better way.

One of the examples I have assigns values to different HoH, and they have quite similar names: %hoh_groups_prod, %hoh_grous_test, %hoh_contacts_prod, %hoh_contacts_test. You get the idea. Theses HoH have data I want to access, I do not want to create them

So I thought: what if I create a hash, let's call it %choice, and create a table like: 

my %choice = (
    'group_prod'    => '$hoh_groups_prod',
    'group_test'    => '$hoh_groups_test',
    'contacts_prod' => '$hoh_contacts_prod',
    'contacts_test' => '$hoh_contacts_test',
);

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If I create a subroutine, then i could call 

my ( $object ) = @_;
my $test = $choice{ $object };

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But what this does is obviously create a new variable $test and not access the values of $hoh_$object{'whatever'}

Does it make sense?

In reply to updated: hash value $value by natxo

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