Hi guys, I'm trying to assign the value of a key in a hash to a variable but want to use a hash reference. Without dereferencing the hash before on a separate line, how could I assign the value of the key to the variable while dereferencing at the same time? Here is some code: 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
# defines country => language hash
my %langs = ( England => 'English',
 France => 'French',
 Spain => 'Spanish',
 China => 'Chinese',
 Germany => 'German');

my $countryid = 'England';

my $langsref = \%langs;

# get language of England
my $englishlang =  %{ $langsref }{$countryid}; # <---- this doesn't wo
+rk. I wanna do the assignment all in this one line but can't figure o
+ut assigning while dereferencing. 
print $englishlang;

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Any help would be great. Thanks so much!

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