To get a better understanding of what I could do with this piece of code, I tried to modify it as follows only to get this error: "delete argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice at ./test2.pl line 29" 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

sub derefHashTree {
    my( $hv, @keys )= @_;
    my $ref= \$hv;
    for my $key (  @keys  ) {
        $ref= \$$ref->{$key};
    }
    return $ref;
}


my %hash1;
$hash1{key1}{key2}{key3}{A} = "hello";
$hash1{key1}{key2}{key3}{B} = "bye";

my $new_hash = \%hash1;

my @keys= qw( key1 key2 key3 A);

#foreach(  keys %{ derefHashTree($new_hash,@keys) }  ) {
#    print "$_\n";
#}

my $new_ref = derefHashTree($new_hash,@keys);

delete $new_ref;
print Dumper(\%hash1);

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I've also tried "delete $$new_ref", "delete ${$new_ref}", "delete %{$new_ref}"

Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: eval on hash (use \\) by Anonymous Monk
in thread eval on hash by Anonymous Monk

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