Hi again dirtdog,

Great advice above from kcott about doing some reading, but you must be feeling frustrated that the advice has come full circle and now you are being told to use arrays instead of hashes! This is because you are describing your sub-tasks and getting advice on each, when what you may really need is advice on how to tackle your overall task. This is sometimes called an XY Problem, as in, your real problem is X but you are asking about Y because you've assumed that's the right approach.

So, maybe you would like to explain a bit about your overall goal: it may elicit different and more applicable advice. For example, now that I see that you have a configuration section for restaurants as well as sports teams, my advice may have been different: I would have probably suggested using YAML, or an .ini file or some other format that would allow you to maintain your data in discrete sections easily outside your program code.


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: How to define and deref hash of hash of hash by 1nickt
in thread How to define and deref hash of hash of hash by dirtdog

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