Hi all ! I've made a structure that uses 3 levels of hashes. It works nice but creating these levels requires a lot, and I mean a lot, of typing per each element. See: 
$project{$activeProject}->{components}->{"Software"}->{subComponents}-
+>{"Database"}->{label} = "Test-1.01";

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That's one element. And it has a lot of elements at different levels. There must be a way in Perl to reduce this amount of typing while retaining the structure. I tried equating part of it, like this: 
sub readItem {
my $subDatabase = $project{$activeProject}->{components}->{"Software"}
+->{subComponents}->{"Database"};

print "$subDatabase->{label}";
}

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And while this works when printing elements, it simply does not write anything to the structure when used to initialize data (I think that's because $subDatabase is local to a subroutine...) Anyhow, I'd really appreciate any suggestions regarding typing less to initialize data in such extensive structures. I'd go for an object-oriented approach if needed. Cheers.

In reply to Using multi-level hashes by carcassonne

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