Hi all! I have a problem in getting values/keys from a dereferenced hash.
I get that hash by reading a file where it was written to before and evaluating it to a variable via eval():

my @file = <filehandle>;
my $line = join "", @file;
my $results = eval ($line);

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I can access values (using a reference to that hash) when I manually look for a key in the file and use it in my code:

$test = $$results{"key"};

The problem is that I don't know the keys of that hash when reading from file since it's built at runtime with changing keys/values.
I can't get the keys by using each(), keys() or values() since these don't like references it seems.
Is there a possibility to evaluate that hash from the file to a real hash, or is there any way to get the keys from that dereferenced hash?

TIA, Michael
PS. My apologies for posting that topic before as anonymous, I forgot to enable cookies... ;-)

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