I thought I posted this earlier, but since the search
turned up nil...
I have a hash made up of array refs mapping to array refs.
Why can't I access the key array data?
my %sample = 
(
   [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] => [ 5, 6, 7, 8 ]
);

my $key;
foreach $key (keys %samples)
{
   my @a = @$key;
   my @b = @{$sample{ $key }};

   print "key=@a\nvalue=@b\n";
}

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Perl is not allowing me to dereference $key.
However, the value referred to is freely accessible.
I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Rob

In reply to Hash of refs to refs by rje

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