You wouldn't want to do that. That would involve symbolic references, and if you're asking the question 'What is a symbolic reference?' you definitely should not be using them. In fact there is almost never a reason to use them.

What you want is a HoH (Hash of Hashes). 

%hash = { 
             filename1 => { id1 => 1, id2 => 1 },
             filename2 => { id1 => 3, id2 => 4 }
};

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like this: 

use strict;
use warnings;
#NOT TESTED

my %filehash;
for ($i=1; $i<=$number; $i++) {
    my $filename = "file$i";
    open (lookup, "<$filename") or die "Can't open $filename : $!\n";
         
    while (<lookup>) {
       ($ref_name, $ref_id) = (split /\t/, $_)[3,4];
       $filehash{$filename}{$ref_id} = $ref_name; 
    }
}

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grep
One dead unjugged rabbit fish later

In reply to Re: multiple files and hashed by grep
in thread multiple files and hashed by Anonymous Monk

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